Who really won in Afghanistan? Whether or not you donate, read the article.
The Military Industrial Complex won big and the American people lost. Eric
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Subject: Afghanistan was a smashing success — for defense contractors.
Defense stocks outperformed the stock market overall by 58 percent during the
war in Afghanistan. Now, cable news commentators with their own undisclosed
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The Intercept is reporting on the disastrous corruption of the
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Was the Afghanistan War a failure? Not for the top five defense contractors and
their shareholders.
If you purchased $10,000 of stock evenly divided among America’s top five
defense contractors on September 18, 2001 — the day President George W. Bush
signed the Authorization for Use of Military Force in Afghanistan — and
faithfully reinvested all dividends, it would now be worth $97,295.
In fact, defense stocks outperformed the stock market overall by 58 percent
during the war in Afghanistan.
Now, cable news commentators with their own undisclosed ties to the defense
industry are castigating President Joe Biden’s withdrawal. The Intercept is
reporting on the disastrous corruption of the military-industrial complex and
the crises it creates in pursuit of profit.
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The U.S.’s 20-year war in Afghanistan mostly remained on the media’s back
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headlines.
But at The Intercept, we’ve been reporting on the war’s catastrophic
consequences, which American military and political leaders have consistently
hidden from the public. We’ve revealed the brutal civilian toll of remote drone
killings and the ruthless tactics of local death squads backed by the U.S.
And we’ve shown who profits from the war machine, from mercenaries like Erik
Prince to surveillance device manufacturers whose biometric tools may have
fallen into the hands of the Taliban.
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