Just because people have died doesn't mean it was for a reason. Twist it how you want these wars have taken a completely different direction than when they started. We are more focused on making friends than getting terrorist. I know hearts and minds, but there is a point where we turned this from a go get them defend out nation to building another nation.

I never agreed with the Iraq war and have grown to hate it over the years. We could have easily made them into a puppet friend government. He was more secular, and gave more to women than most arab nations than most give him credit for. They learned their lesson 12 years prior but we had to go in. It would have only taken a few months right. Most deaths are pointless in that shit hole unnecessary war. For what WMDs? Kurds freedom? What about N. Korea, Darfur, and the other oppressed countries in the world? where were we then? What was Iraq doing that was so bad we had to waste 4,000+ plus americans to do? That war was based on lies and for what? shit the mission changed 3 times on the way into Iraq.

Afghanistan had a good reason, but now we are trying to push our culture on them? What are they native americans? where are the missions?
Female engagement teams. They are there to empower the women of Afghanistan as if they men there gave two fucks. That isn't their way of life and will not change over night. Once we tried to change the country is when that war became stupid as well.

Some people need to stop reading Propaganda posters.

The cost isn't, as provided in the example, a big reason for the national debt but it isn't helping either. Things closely related are. Has anyone seen FT Carson recently as compare to what it looked like 5 years ago? Why are they completely rebuilding the commissary? We brought an entire division here and built space for 4/5 of them. Why did we really have too much money?