Gee I thought we fighting in Afghanistan to keep the heroin flowing?
Is there any other viable reason to stay in Afghanistan?
They produce literally nothing. They are a land locked mountainous country of little significance. They control no major trade routes other than the home of the poppy fields. They have no oil.
I think they may have some lithium.
Maybe there is a great worldwide demand for 1980s Toyota Tacomas and Datson pick up trucks.
Think of the savings if the Pentagon would have just bid out for a bunch of Toyota Hilux's (with rhino lining on the frame) or land rover Defenders instead of blowing all that money on the HMMV program. Instead, the government decided to ban import the Defender because it doesn't have an airbag, and the original concept of light pickup trucks like the Datsun and Hilux has been pushed out of the US marketplace entirely because of CAFE standards.
The CIA/their contractors and their companies, etc. created that and all wars for them and the CIA to profit, etc. on and for the CIA to get our military killed, maimed, etc.: Heroin, opium, and lithium in Afghan., oil and antiquities in Iraq, and who knows what else in both those countries and what the CIA etc. got out of Korea and Vietnam too/ how many hundreds of million dollars, etc.