Veteran says Iraq and Afghanistan lacked clear objectives and became “profitable” to continue

What was said

"And then that's what makes you disgusted because a lot of people did look at it as a business model. And the business model was very profitable just to stay involved."

The guest, a former US Army Ranger, argues that US war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan continued largely because senior decision-makers did not set clear objectives and some actors treated the conflict as a “business model”. He characterises the incentives to remain engaged as financially “profitable”, while framing the outcome as a moral and strategic failure given the human costs.