Afghanistan - Bounties - Silly Talk Comments No Us deaths in Afghanistan only squandered billions just to keep a nation on its knees. No one even asks how we will pay for it. They only ask that question when tax payers need help. Posted by: Carol DW | Feb 11 2021 9:58 utc | 1 The next thing you know, The New York Times, CNN and Axios will uncover news that, as President, Donald Trump paid Taliban and Afghan militants to take out US troops - 'cuz as The Don says, US troops are "losers". It surely has never occurred to the Western MSM that the Afghans and the Taliban don't target US or other Coalition troops because, as the Iranians found when considering who to take out as revenge for the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani, no-one they find quite matches the status and dignity of Soleimani or of those Afghans and Taliban martyrs who died in skirmishes against the Westerners.