May be you need to investigate these claims and make economic sense. Ok lets do this, so US went down on scale of wealth vs. few European countries, Ok fine. How is that relevant to situation in Pakistan ? Since I have been living and working here, I have seen nothing but growth but than again its subjective. Lets say it differently, even today 67% of americans are home owners, while their salaries have not grown meaningfully but nothing was broken either, its not like people are dying of hunger here and have no place to live or Safety nets are not there because of Iraq and Afg Wars. The policy setting wars to maintain an empire will always have a cost. That’s what empires do but saying that’s a defeat of the US when all fuking generals of our great army have their families living here is laughable.