Is that what we were doing in Afghanistan? We
were there to build a democracy of institutions?
Or were we there to pillage a country?
I'm not a fan of the US' occupation of Afghanistan, and I don't think the US was there for some sort of higher ideal... but, pillage? It's not a country from which there is much wealth to extract.
Of course, the US military-industrial complex profited nicely. That's not quite the same as pillaging, though.
Except of course for the Trillion worth of mineral wealth found in 2010[0], that the Afghan government has been spending $300 million per year on(probably to US contractors)[1].
Of course, the US military-industrial complex profited nicely. That's not quite the same as pillaging, though.