Sounds like every policy of the war on terror.

When you spend infinite billion dollars through your regional "partners" who knowably executed 9/11 bombing a country for a decade and the rebels STILL take the capitol and you have no real targets because you have forged Dune-style Fremen, while you officially ally with Al Qaeda as the government of Syria a few years after surrendering to the Taliban in Afghanistan... #winning

How else are we supposed to give nearly half of the discretionary spending to defense contractors? We can't just make a big pile of all the bombs, that would be dangerous. Dropping them on poor people ensures they are only dangerous for a brief amount of time, with minimal risk to the ruling class.

The "anti war" president.

And it costs innocent people their lives or makes it at least very miserable. Yeah, what to spend billions for...

"Is this just an excuse to funnel public money into private military contracts?"

"Ye man"