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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by thinkloop on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @08:25PM (#16760647)
> there's no way in hell any group of citizens can fight the US army these days so it seems like a moot point.

Afghanistan is the 8th poorest nation in the world [1]

The US spent over a decade and over a trillion dollars fighting there [2]

We did not decisively "win" by any measure [3]

[1] https://financesonline.com/a-list-of-third-world-countries-1...

[2] https://www.thebalance.com/cost-of-afghanistan-war-timeline-...

[3] http://nationalinterest.org/feature/america-will-never-win-t...

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