OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
In Afghanistan, the Choice Is Ours
Richard N. Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, is the author of “War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars.”
Haass supports the war in Afghanistan in this opinion. However, he doesn't tell us the number of Taliban or insurgents that America and allies are fighting over there - nor does he contemplate the extent to which our military presences in the Middle East in general may have become additional and enormous funnels of money to the Department of Defense and defense contractors ($154 Billion has been spent on defense contracting in the Middle East probably since 2001).
The financial incentives of these military endeavors are probably clouding all decision-makers thinking on the issues. Supposedly the US is spending $4 billion per month on Afghanistan alone...
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