This is infuriating and heartbreaking for me on a deeply personal level...but when Putin has been funding the Taliban for years what more can we expect from this administration. Every one of these fuckers has sold their soul to Vlad.

What I said was the Afghan people deserved better. The servicemembers and children and locals I treated and tried to put back together after being blown to bits and shot up to pieces deserved better than this.

Thanks for helping so much during this useless war. Good people like you did great!!!!!

The biggest part of what we did in Helmand province was to try to disrupt that drug trade

https://www.npr.org/2019/12/28/792065458/gold-star-families-sue-defense-contractors-alleging-they-funded-the-taliban

More than 100 Gold Star families are suing several major defense contractors, alleging they made illegal "protection payments" to the Taliban — thereby funding the Taliban's insurgency efforts that killed or wounded thousands of Americans in Afghanistan.

It's illegal under the federal Anti-Terrorism Act to provide material support to the Taliban. The U.S. has warned defense contractors that protection payments are against the law, but according to the lawsuit, the practice has proliferated because defense contractors feel it's a cost of doing business.

"Defendants supported the Taliban for a simple reason: Defendants were all large Western companies with lucrative businesses in post-9/11 Afghanistan, and they all paid the Taliban to refrain from attacking their business interests," the complaint says. "Those protection payments aided and abetted terrorism by directly funding an al-Qaeda-backed Taliban insurgency that killed and injured thousands of Americans."

According to the lawsuit, filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the Taliban in 2005 began systematically approaching international businesses operating in Afghanistan, and offered them a choice: pay up, or else. "Defendants paid the Taliban to leave them alone," the suit alleges. "The payments saved Defendants money: it was cheaper to buy off the Taliban than it would have been to invest in the security necessary to mitigate the terrorists' threats.

There was a ton of money being made by contractors over there. Look at Iraq, the US army under Patreus had a policy of paying off the “insurgents”.

to know which governments have been financing these pricks...... Pakistan, I'm looking at you...

rubles.

It doesn't matter if its the most inane subject, he will not give a meaningful answer at any time anymore.