Watching this catfight, eating popcorn.
War was kind of cool in the small picture, and very enlightening about the (gay) big picture.
US military was mostly gay, civilians mostly even worse.
Surviving Iraqis are mostly not better or worse off, they're still Iraqis (yuck.)

Lots of Afghans died, many more were born, some got really wealthy, overall the place is better than it was in 2001 (maybe,) but worse than it would have been if 2001-2021 had been an era of peace (lmfao, nfw).
The GAE continues to suck, but less than the big competitors.

"Ad a taxpayer"-STFU, the GAE budget is not funded by your taxes but by printing the world's reserve currency.