A Hellfire missile apparently costs $150K [0]. Given that it's apparently OK to launch one of these at a single suspected enemy informant, couldn't we have saved a lot of time, money and lives by just bribing the entire population of Afghanistan to not do things that the West doesn't like? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-114_Hellfire
>just bribing the entire population of Afghanistan to not do things that the West doesn't like? Lol we also did that.
No, most of the foreing aid got stolen by the corrupt Afghan government. see https://thediplomat.com/2021/08/taliban-take-kabul-via-path-... . They didn't even pay their servicemen, that's the reason for the quick surrender. Interesting why very few in the US are asking how they could spend more than a trillion of the taxpayers money without any oversight.