Does no one understand how this country operates?  I've said it here before - - in order for the military to keep functioning and for the feds to keep printing "endless money" (and that's only TWO reasons of many) there simply has to be an excuse for it all because the politicians MAKE MONEY off of all these "programs".  Never mind that it costs human lives and what it costs the taxpayers to fund the VA to take care of the men and women who DON'T get themselves killed.

Sometimes I think Ron Paul and I are the only two people on the entire planet who understand this concept - - because the others who DO understand it are also the ones making the money . . . the vicious circle.

http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2021/may/03/will-special-interests-allow-america-s-longest-war-to-finally-end/