In Afghanistan right now, a one-legged Afghan Red Cross worker named Said Musa is sitting in a prison cell awaiting his execution. Musa, a father of six children, was arrested by the Afghan government as he attempted to seek asylum at the German embassy last year. He was sentenced to death by an Afghan court that was established by the new Afghan government that the United States worked so hard to set up. He has been tortured and sexually abused for months. An Afghan judge has told him that he will be hung within a matter of days. So what was his crime? He was a Muslim that has become a Christian. Under Sharia law, that is punishable by death. Is this is the "freedom" that we have sacrificed so many American lives to bring to Afghanistan? This Christian father of six will be hung by the Afghan "democracy" that the United States has been "nurturing" and that U.S. soldiers have been working so hard to defend.
If this is the "liberty" that the United States is "exporting" to the Middle East, then why in the world are we still over there?
Isn't it about time that the United States got the heck out of the Middle East?
Barack Obama and the rest of the U.S. government have been strangely silent about the fate of Said Musa. At this point it does not appear that the U.S. government is going to do anything to intervene.
What a disgrace. We have been in Afghanistan for about 9 and a half years. Up to this point, it is estimated that the U.S. government has spent over 379 billion dollars on the war in Afghanistan. Way too many U.S. soldiers have bled and died on Afghan soil.
And for what?
But it is the same thing in Iraq. Up to this point, it is estimated the the U.S. government has spent over 775 billion dollars on the war in Iraq. A lot of Americans lost arms and legs in Iraq. A lot of Americans will never be coming home from Iraq at all.
And for what?
Before the war Christians felt safe in Iraq. Now large numbers of them are fleeing Iraq as fast as they can. More than 80 Iraqi Christians were recently beheaded on a single day. All the Christians were trying to do was attend a church service.
These days all Christians in Iraq attend services knowing that there is a good chance that they may not live to see tomorrow.
Exactly what have we "accomplished" in Iraq?
Is Iraq any safer than before the U.S. invasion?
No.
Is Iraq producing fewer "terrorists" than before the U.S. invasion?
No.
Today there are more Iraqis that would like to harm the United States than ever before.
But we sure have spent a lot of money.
Since 2001, the total cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan breaks down to well over $3,600 for every man, woman and child in the United States.
We have spent well over a trillion dollars that we didn't have on these stupid wars that have accomplished next to nothing.
Not only that, but we also spend hundreds of billions of dollars each year on "foreign aid" to corrupt governments in the Middle East.
Why in the world would we do such a thing?
As I have written about previously, we don't exactly have any extra money to be throwing around.
So why are we giving these corrupt governments all this money?
Is it so that they will do what we want?
Well, it is not exactly working.
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