US wasted trillions on warfare instead of infrastructure

That's what happens when you're being vague, you could have been referring to any number of things, civil war, healthcare, gun legislation and a host of other things.

The Civil War doesn't qualify because it didn't last longer than the 'War on Terror'. Healthcare and gun control don't qualify because they aren't widely known as wars except by a few radicals.

In context, I thought the War on Drugs was an obvious choice

Universal Health Care is seen as a right by most developed nations except for a few radicals.

Yes, but it seems a bit of a stretch to think of the war on drugs as a war against our own citizens.

Some parts of the war on drugs are ill advised. But at the same time I'd hate to see heroin pushers legally able to get people hooked on it.

Why is it a problem that our war against al-Qa'ida continues for so long? As long as we continue to prosecute the war to the best of our ability, I don't know what else we can ask of ourselves.

Ask the hundreds of thousands of our citizens killed, imprisoned or that had their lives ruined not by drugs but this ******* stupid war kept going for the benefit of a bunch of business interests and politicians interested in nothing but their own reelection.

**** that immoral war.

Not just American citizens, load of deaths south of the border.

Yep. They lost more than the US lost in the Vietnam war, Most of them totally innocent

Prohibition breeds gangsterism. America consumes 80% of the global supply of pharmaceutical opioids. You can see why the big drug companies want to protect that cash cow. Richard E Grant nails it in How To Get Ahead In Advertising.