'Cause The United States Is A Back Door Man.

  -"The war in Afghanistan is complete bullshit". These words were said by Robert Baer. In a documentary about the several current situations surrounding, what has now been called, the longest war in the United States history. Without a doubt, this is the last thing anyone wishes to hear, that your country is in the longest war in its history. The time has passed since the fateful events of September 11th 2001, when our country was made vulnerable by Osama Bin Landen's terrorist organization. In the 13 years since the war began, we have seen the loss of thousands of young men and women (both soldiers and civilians), and funding that has become an AWOL situation. So were do we stand? We stand in muck.

  The war in Afghanistan is an utter joke, except jokes are meant to be funny. The war has become a laborious task by the united states to bring in democracy to a war torn country. According to sites like The Week news, the goal, like most wars is to win. But due to the circumstances it has become unclear who is winning this war. There are 2 different sides in the war. The U.S. Soldiers and the Taliban Forces. The U.S. goal is to win or spread democracy and freedom for the people under the control of the Taliban. Of course many argue there have been alternative reasons for invading these nations, for example oil. But the original goal, if there ever was one, has been lost in the chaos of the war. The Taliban is a terrorist organized by religious extremist, who ultimate goal is to reign chaos onto those who do not follow their ideals and beliefs.

  For the 100 years the US has always prioritized funding for its military, but the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan represent an astronomical new record in the amount of money we are willing to spend per soldier. There has been a progressive increase in the cost of war. In 11 years, the money sunk into these battles has been staggering. To place a 1 U.S. Troop in Iraq cost a total 2 million dollars.There are roughly 30 soldiers in a troop. The expenses to fund a solider and troop has doubled from world war 2(when it was originally 50,000 dollars in World War 2.)

  It takes 2 million extra dollars that fund the war(not to mention the billion or so dollars it takes to fund weaponry and protection. In the Documentary  Rethinking Afghanistan, it argues that we as people need to know just how much money is being sunk int to the war. Soldiers like SSG Christopher Bentley, says that there is a huge waste of money being spent to fund equipment like barriers that could be made by local people. Government organization like the Pentagon have said that they have lost sight of the cost of the war.


War never changes in the eyes of those who are no a part of it. The U.S. has sunk billions of dollars into a war, when that money could be used to fund domestic programs like after schools programs, schools or even medical research. The nation has been in a debt crisis for some time now, but it doesn't help that 2 million dollars a day are being spent in a war. the casualties grow every day. From hundred's to thousands, someones son or daughter is dying for a lost cause. We are left with questions like why are we here? Why do these people hate us? They hate us, because our country has grow to hate them for nothing.

The nations of Iraq and Afghanistan have felt the greatest loss from either side. The Citizen of both these nations feel this great animosity from the U.S. They have lost the lives of children, mothers and family before there very eyes. They live in a war that dose not seem to end. They become desperate to the point that we have made them into the very enemy we struggle to fight. But why do they side with the enemy? We Push them to become the enemy out of desperation

  We are left with a question. A question we are asked during any war. Can we win it. No we can not. With massive debt, funding going down the toilet and people beginning to open their eyes. We lost this war when the lives of the innocent were being taken. If we were to win, victory would look a little something like this. I don't know what its takes to win the war. What need to be done is to rebuild what has been destroyed. We need to find a better tomorrow to built a better future.


Sources:http://theweek.com/article/index/88432/briefing-americas-other-war -I used this source to talk about the economic situation.

             http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4teO_XDtkLk&feature=relmfu  -I used this source to discuses the the funding put into the separate military sources.

 http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7384906n&tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.0  -I used this source to discuss the moral of the war and the loss.