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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
Yes, half-assed. We never fully committed to changing anything. We deposed the Taliban, tried to build some civic engineering stuff but we didn't go full colonial and just take over everything. You can spend a lot of money but not fully commit to winning or spend it wrong and have the wrong strategy. Look at a recent Yankees payroll as an example.

Also, I don't think we should have been there at all in the first place. I knew we didn't have the stomach to do what would have been required to actually commit to real change there, so we spent a shit ton of money, hundreds of thousands of lives later and then just handed it back over to people who waited 20 years for us to get tired of playing at nation building.
gpt
&gt; but we didn't go full colonial and just take over everything. 

More troops on the ground would be needed, thus more dead, more material damage, more debt. Colonization only works when the colonizer makes a big profit from colonizing.