‘Paul Wolfowitz’ Tells Newsmax The Afghanistan War Wasted Two Trillion Dollars
NewsmaxTV today allowed a fake Paul Wolfowitz to spend 11 minutes telling its hundreds of thousands of viewers that the $2.1T war in Afghanistan, begun by his administration in 2001, was a complete waste of money. “The next time we have two trillion dollars lying around, let’s spend it on something useful like health care or education,” said “Wolfowitz” to Tom Basile, live on the air.
Here below is a partial transcript of the interview. For more on the interview and its fallout, visit www.theyesmen.org/newsmax.
Tom, there's been a lot of focus on how Biden ended this war in Afghanistan, and on what we have to do now — but very little about the FACT that Biden did end this war.
Now we do have to rescue our allies. Every single Afghan who needs to get out of there should be able to do so.
But Tom, what our piece in the Wall Street Journal is really about is that a sitting president, in the office of president, unnecessarily ended a war — for no reason at all.
Because let's be honest, Tom — there just aren't a lot of things that ordinary Americans can be proud of these days.