To make the situation worse, everyone involved has been telling the public outrageous lies about what actually happened in order to hide their total incompetence.
thehill.com - The National Defense Authorization Act is what funds our military, but way too much of the bill always gives outrageous amounts of money to defense contractors. Much of the "dark money" is for projects that are classified, so there's no way to track...
Because of our huge military industrial complex generating millions of dollars for our politicians, our government seems to think the solution to every conflict is spending lots of blood and treasure.