Tom Ritchford
2 min readFeb 1, 2020

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America has spent tens of trillions of dollars on its military, and the one time it was tested, on 9/11, it got zero out of four. The rest of the world noticed that no one lost their job because of this.

Nearly all those millions of millions of dollars have been spent murdering people in foreign countries who never offered the United States the slightest harm before people like you showed up and killed them.

Your military has failed on every venture it has undertaken for generations. Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, all the way back to Vietnam — each failure worse than the last, more comically inept.

And yet military fanbois are all puffed up about how strong America is, without the faintest idea of how ridiculous it makes them sound, given that the rest of us can all see America fall its collective ass over and over and over and over for decades.

Remember when in 2002 everyone swore that the Iraq War would take a few billion and last a few months? Almost twenty years later, it’s cost billions, more Americans than 9/11, and accomplished absolutely nothing.

And it was based entire on lies. In other words, America murdered all those Iraqis for nothing.

Repeatedly committing genocide at great expense doesn’t make America safer.

And that has prevented America from having the good things that the rest of the developed world has, like roads, bridges, tunnels and water systems that aren’t falling apart, and young people who aren’t hopelessly in debt for medical care or education.

Maybe stop flexing your muscles in the mirror and start asking yourself hard questions, like who profits from this endless, fruitless, illegal warfare that never seems to actually achieve anything at all.

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