Last week, the senate sat down to discuss the 20 year war on Afghanistan. This bloody and brutal war that has stretched out for two decades has cost the American people a whopping 2.3 trillion dollars.
It’s not just about the money.
Countless lives have been lost on both sides of the battle, both military and civilian.
Millions of families have been displaced, governments have been destabilized, and the quality of life in affected regions has plummeted.
The War in Afghanistan has led to some of the most egregious civil rights violations on Afghan soil and beyond, even peaking through to the mainland United States.
Despite these losses, the senate committee has failed to take account of the tremendous costs of the Wars on Terror, instead choosing to focus on the political instigation of the war instead.
Here’s the thing: The Afghanistan War was a disaster- one of the biggest disasters in US History.
If we don’t understand what went wrong, we run the risk of making the same mistakes again.
We need to look at the numbers, and understand what we lost, and where we will go from here.
These numbers are important, and they are just the beginning to understand what has taken place.
Here is what we think: Congress must develop a comprehensive analysis of the Afghanistan war so that we can learn what happened, why it did, and how we can prevent it from happening again.
The question on our minds, and on the minds of many of you, remains this: Was it worth the cost?
Here’s what you can do- contact your congressional representative and senators and ask them to form a commission to investigate the Afghanistan War.
We do not have the ability to take back our actions, or to return life to those who have lost it. We can only move forward by redressing our harms, and giving back what we can- opportunity.
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