Here’s Sri Lankan “social theorist,” Indi Samarajiva:

The American war on Afghanistan was a $2.26 trillion scam. Somebody pocketed all that money, and it certainly wasn’t the people of Afghanistan. That amount is 115 years of Afghan GDP, and it mostly went to arms dealers, the corrupt US military, and corrupt US politicians. Meanwhile the Taliban gets to keep the weapons. This wasn’t just a waste, it was a gigantic fraud.

Shouldn’t the people responsible for this scam at least be put in prison? Better yet, shouldn’t a gallows be set up on the Capitol mall… and Petraeus and Bush hung… to serve as a proper warning to the next group of warmongers?

Instead, the people responsible for the war now sit on the boards of Raytheon and Boeing. They advise the nation on “defense” issues and live in their mansions in Northern Virginia… as if they have nothing to be ashamed of.