Bribes to keep Afghan warlords on our side, military contractors like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin (probably the majority), various boondoggle infrastructure projects that amounted to nothing, and just general graft. People talk about the open corruption and theft of the Trump administration but they're children compared to what the Bush administration set up in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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