War in Afghanistan

A pointless 20-year long war that was fought (and lost to the Taliban) by the United States of America. The purpose of the war was to root out "terror" (whatever the fuck that objective means) and to kill all brown people in the Middle East (remove the Taliban and Al-Qaeda). The war was a gigantic stain on the US and it's people, and due to the amount of money wasted on the endeavor, it will more than likely lead to the eventual economic collapse and downfall of the US itself. Just like the Soviet Union (see Soviet-Afghan War for context).

If you ever feel like you're useless, just remember that it took four presidents, 2,459 dead soldiers, and $2 Trillion dollars to replace the Taliban with the Taliban in Afghanistan.

That's right. $2 Fucking Trillion. Not enough money for the homeless, or student debt, or cancer research, or space exploration, or to help the elderly stateside. But just enough money to bomb brown people. God Bless America.

War in Afghanistan

Round Tripped

v. To take a trading/brokerage account from nothing to a high amount of money before subsequently losing all of said money again.

Alex: Bro, Iran almost bombed Israel and giant institutional firms just unwound their carry trades on the Japanese yen. My account just went from $2K to $20K!!!

Fletch: Nice man! You going to cash it out??

Alex: Nah, the market's about to crash. I'm goin' for a mil.

(Market recovers, all short positions get fucked, Iran doesn't do jack shit, and account get's blown)

**Next Week**
Fletch: Sup dude? How you floatin'?

Alex: I'm not. Account just Round Tripped. Back to zero.