Only the U.S. State Department under both Mike Pompeo and now Antony Blinken opposed this. If you're angry this morning you can thank Russian diplomats who started this process in December 2016 by opening up the dialogue between the Taliban and the Asian powers with Pakistan leading the talks.

I can't say I'm shedding any tears here except for all the losses on both sides. War is never righteous.

So, while I'm happy to see this end I am also sad to also see this end for what it is, a planned act of geopolitical vandalism by the Biden Obama Administration to ensure a complete collapse of the U.S. political system.

We are being liquidated by The Davos Crowd at the precise moment when their Great Reset is at its most vulnerable.

20 Years a Slave to War
For 20 years we libertarians warned this day would come and now it's here. Is it a case of better late than never?

I think that question is irrelevant. The costs are incalculable. They always are.

You'll hear a lot of utilitarian nonsense about $2.2 trillion etc. but that's just the price tag you see. What you don't see, as Harry Hazlitt reminds us, is where the real costs are — the lost opportunities, the Afghan and American lives spent, the bureaucracy empowered, the capital diverted from productive work — that come with prosecuting endless war for impossible democracy.