Your tax $ at work: US SCRAPS $7 BILLION WORTH OF EQUIPMENT AS IT LEAVES AFGHANISTAN

[Vovchandr]

@Mafdark

Its only a “huge loss” if you ignore the alternatives. When you dont consider the cost of the other options then yes - this doesn’t seem very economical. However when you take everything into consideration its a very reasonable decision.

It bugs the hell out of me when public opinion of what is the “right” answer is actually the one that “appears right” and influences decision makers, who often don’t have a backbone because they hold public office, to make the wrong decision.

Not being involved in the clusterfuck of the middle east while we have plenty of our own issues to worry about is quite “right”.

Then we wouldn’t have to worry about destroying our own equipment and tens of thousands of troop casualties.

We seemed to have no problem leaving equipment in Iraq in 2011

U.S. Military Hands Millions of Dollars of Equipment Over to Iraqis

The Great Iraqi Giveaway: Billions In Bases, Equipment Being Handed Over

Edit: Don’t misunderstand me, I understand that it’s likely the better option out there such as bringing old dated equipment back home at a hefty cost and bringing it back upto operational status, it’s still stupid in the grand scheme of things and it’s nothing new, it’s been happening in almost every conflict we’ve ever been in.

Edit x2: Fuckit, who wants to start manufacturing military equipment and get in on these contracts? There is no such thing as budget limits when it comes to war and we won’t stop being involved int he rest of the world in any foreseeable future.