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I have heard it said
that the tragedy in Afghanistan
is that trillions of dollars
were spent by America
but as the invaders
they 'had no long term plan'.

The money got frittered away 
because long term developments
required a domestic consensus
of determined the long term aims
where the war started.

But the political cycle in the USA
is two years between elections
that serve to sharpen the narcissism
of minor difference between the two parties
as they brandish their ignorance
via misbegotten foreign policy.

But then again the aim of all the wars
that America has set up, or joined in on,
is less to make peace among nations,
and more to give the U.S. arms industry 
a reason for selling weapons 'safely' -
that 'keeps the peace' the home country.