‘What was the point of all the destruction, killing and misery they brought us?’ This is what Malek Mir, a mechanic in Bagram, Afghanistan, told Reuters on Friday night after thousands of US troops departed a nearby airbase. ‘I wish they had never come’, he added.
He is right. It is difficult to imagine a war as profoundly and brutally pointless as that waged by the US and its NATO allies in Afghanistan.
It has lasted nearly 20 years. It has cost the lives of over 240,000 people, including 71,000 civilians. And, on the part of the US alone, it has taken nearly $1 trillion to fund.
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