Good rundown of some of the opportunity costs of the Iraq War, specifically dealing with Afghanistan.

I have to say, I had this image in my head of what good we could do when the Afghanistan war was fought. Improving communications, building better roads, improving farming and industry — with smart grassroots development projects similar to the billboard-based development projects that showed some success.

Instead, we did what the Russians did, fight a war to defeat an enemy but not win the people. We’re now going to pay the price in two countries.

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