Hundreds of thousands of lives and unimaginably vast fortunes were both thrown away. In exchange, a few thousand people captured a small amount of that spending and got somewhat wealthier.
But even then, most of that was captured by only a few families.
Well they said they were sorry, what else do you want from them? The TV says dubya is a good guy now because he dislikes trump, you'd have to be some kind of fascist to disagree with that logic.
Not security, we somehow left all of our weapons and vehicles behind for the Taliban to use.
We literally threw away decades of goodwill for... nothing. All that happened is our "enemies" are stronger and we are weaker and poorer.