 It's infuriating to look back at what the U.S. government has done for 20 years in Afghanistan, propping up corrupt, unpopular governments, supposedly training and equipping 300,000 Afghan soldiers who just disappeared, sending in drones, bombs, invading homes, killing so many Afghans and U.S. soldiers in vain, spending $300 million a day on these atrocities. Everybody went into the coffers of the weapons makers and the military contractors and hearing the lies after lives that victory was just around the corner. So what do we do now? Yes, we have a responsibility to those Afghans who are desperate to leave, a responsibility to the millions left behind that need humanitarian aid, but we also have a responsibility to stop our government from doing this again. And the best way to do that is to cut the military budget in half. Free up that $350 billion to stop funding war and militarism and instead to fund life, peace and the planet.