{"id":505583,"date":"2021-08-17T15:20:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T19:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=505583"},"modified":"2021-08-17T15:20:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T19:20:30","slug":"the-exposed-shame-of-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=505583","title":{"rendered":"The exposed shame of the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s Sri Lankan \u201csocial theorist,\u201d Indi Samarajiva:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The American war on Afghanistan was a $2.26 trillion scam. Somebody pocketed all that money, and it certainly wasn\u2019t the people of Afghanistan. That amount is <em>115 years<\/em> 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\u2019t just a waste, it was a gigantic <em>fraud<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shouldn\u2019t the people responsible for this scam at least be put in prison? Better yet, shouldn\u2019t a gallows be set up on the Capitol mall\u2026 and Petraeus and Bush hung\u2026 to serve as a proper warning to the next group of warmongers?<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the people responsible for the war now sit on the boards of Raytheon and Boeing. They advise the nation on \u201cdefense\u201d issues and live in their mansions in Northern Virginia\u2026 as if they have nothing to be ashamed of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s Sri Lankan \u201csocial theorist,\u201d Indi Samarajiva: The American war on Afghanistan was a $2.26 trillion scam. Somebody pocketed all that money, and it certainly wasn\u2019t the people of Afghanistan. That amount is 115 years of Afghan GDP, and it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=505583\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=505583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=505583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=505583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=505583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}