“candidate Trump was correct when he said that we squandered $6 trillion over there and only made things worse.”
You’re out of date. His newest plucked out of the air number is $7T. God only knows where he got that number from. We’ll only have spent $11T from 2001 to 2018 on defense, plugging in $700b a year from 2016 to 2018.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States $7T is 2/3 of defense spending. Is Trump saying that 2/3 of our defense spending has been on Iraq and Afghanistan? How does he justify his calculations? Or is Trump beyond measly details such as numbers?