John Ryan, Ph.D., is a retired professor of geography and senior scholar at the University of Winnipeg in Canada.
He can be reached at jryan13@mymts.net.
By every measure, the Afghan War has been a failure for America. But it has been a $5 trillion success for American corporations like Lockheed Martin, DynCorp, General Dynamics, Black & Veatch, Halliburton and the oil companies which shipped half-a-million gallons of fuel a day...