“The war benefited Afghan women far less than it did the military industrial complex” Opinion | UssamaMakdisi
The Vietnamese and Iraqis were abandoned by their erstwhile American patrons long before the Afghans. A small minority of these were brought to the United States. The vast majority, however, were left behind in politically, socially, and environmentally devastated and contaminated landscapes.
But so too, in a different way, will ordinary Americans live with the consequences of war for generations. The massive opportunity costs of these forgotten wars will continue to accumulate until the American people begin to defund the grotesquely bloated military budget and overthrow the idea of American exceptionalism that permits and sustains these wars.
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