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Its okay, I knew itd be unpopular. Thank you though. Your support makes it worth it

The YouTube version is 50 minutes. Anyone know what is missing from it?

You mean they CONSERVE it:)?

I appreciate your answering these questions. But, I think there's a bit too much military and not enough truth in these answers.

I have no idea where yall stand politically or, in relation to the war. I'm not a listener of yalls podcast but the idea that the USA had to invade a sovereign nation, spend trillions (while children starved at home), kill thousands of people (let alone INNOCENT PEOPLE), to find and stop Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda, is absolutely absurd.

Those same militants you were trying to fight and kill were built by the government to fight a proxy war against Russia.

How do you feel, knowing that at the hand of your government, millions have died. Not for de facto, "oh, the ends justify the means", bull shit. But, for pure profit and greed? You yourself say the M.O has changed since WW2. None of what the USA has done since then has been to benefit anyone but their own agenda. So, in all seriousness, how does it feel to fight for that? To die for that? To have your friends blown up, for that?

I'm not a soldier and I'd rather blow my fucking brains out than participate in an unjustified war, but I cannot imagine fighting and thinking you're on the side of good, and then slowly discovering it's anything but that. I don't fault y'all. I just would be devastated.

>2. Contractors became a useful tool to bypass troop limits in war zones.

Do you mean to avoid the questions from the public, at home?

Black Rock made well over $15 BILLION per year, and gave back over 2 million in bribes (lobbying). How does this look like anything other than laundering billions in tax dollars to the elite?

>4. The US didn't decide it was okay to torture. Certain individuals did. Torture is wrong.

The USA government didn't know about the torture?

>5. Conducting patrols through poppy fields was common. Guarding them was not.

And yet, it happened. While some soldiers were caught smuggling drugs. Seems suspicious, don't you think? Not to even mention the CIA, Iran contra, crack cocaine scandal and how it relates to the military invading and the opiates crisis exploding at the same time ... just a conspiracy on my end. But, not unfounded.

>6. The US is trying to pressure the Taliban government to become more tolerant and inclusive before releasing additional funds. Mind you, our government is still sending them money, just not as much.

You don't truly believe this, do you? Abortions rights are stripped away, trans rights stripped away, gay rights stripped away, children plunged back into poverty with the stroke of a pen, homeless climbing rapidly and you truly believe your government has a vested interest in the human rights of a country it just finished raping? Really?

>7. We don't have a good number but there are quite a few Americans still in Afghanistan.

So the USA is, in fact, not pulled out?

>8. That money isn't for reparations. And it's being withheld from the government for the above stated reasons.

So, to be clear, the USA government, is controlling what, 7 billion dollars of poor farmers and civilians because "Taliban bad"? Really?

>expeditious

This is the part that really got me going (as you can clearly see). This is such a BS equivocation. I'm trying really hard to participate in good faith but for you (who, let's be clear, are also a victim of the American agenda), to insinuate anything other than murder for hire, is really, really frustrating.

I wish they wouldn't have deleted it. It sounds like it was an important question about the military destroying the planet.

Why was the USA over there? Why did the USA use contractors instead of actual military? How much was spent on those contractors and how much did those contractors spend on lobbying? Why did the USA murder so many innocent women and children? Why did the USA decide it was okay to torture? Why were soldiers guarding poppy fields? How many untold civilians deaths were there? How many civilians deaths did the politicians actually know about? Why is the USA using sanctions to kill civilians? How many more people are still in there even though they've "pulled out"? Why does the USA feel entitled to withhold billions of dollars of money from the Afghanistan people for supposed reparations to 9/11, when they had nothing to do with it?

Most importantly. How can anyone fight for a country whose sole purpose is to establish U.S hegemony in the Global South ostensibly for freedom but in reality for imperialist agenda

In your opinion, how fucked is the Supreme Court?

Florida and Texas... you up?