Well, Andy, I agree with you that selective folks like the Cheney’s and the Bush’s and countless others probably got rich off the Trillions we wasted fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But, that pales into irrelevance against the legless and armless and mentally broken Vets we see at the nearest Veterans Hospital.
No argument from me. it was a strategic blunder of the order of the Syracuse venture that Athens executed in the Peloponesses war. They lost their fleet, which was the backbone on their Aegean empiare, lost their empire, lost their sovereignty, freedom and indepence.