>“What did we get for this $1 trillion effort? Was it worth
>$1 trillion?” Jeffrey Eggers, a retired Navy SEAL and White
>House staffer for Bush and Obama, told government
>interviewers. He added, “After the killing of Osama bin
>Laden, I said that Osama was probably laughing in his watery
>grave considering how much we have spent on Afghanistan.”

The United States is a collection of business interests. Jeffrey Eggers' bosses at Lockheed and Raytheon and whichever construction companies cashed in got paid for two entire decades on this. As far as they're concerned, we won. And because the media narrative here is so Afghanistan-specific, and doesn't feel like it's headed towards any broad critique of American imperialism, the same people who brought us this war are going to get another bite at the apple. And the apple after that. And the apple after that.