US federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $6.4T dollars
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Re: US federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $6.4T dollars
#2Summary:
- Over 801,000 people have died due to direct war violence, and several times as many indirectly
- Over 335,000 civilians have been killed as a result of the fighting
- 37 million - the number of war refugees and displaced persons
- The US federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $6.4 trillion dollars
- The US government is conducting counterterror activities in 80 countries
- The wars have been accompanied by violations of human rights and civil liberties, in the US and abroad
Re: US federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $6.4T dollars
#3Summary: - Over 801,000 people have died due to direct war violence, and several times as many indirectly - Over 335,000 civilians have been killed as a result of the fighting - 37 million - the number of war refugees and displaced persons - The US federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $6.4 trillion dollars - The US government is conducting counterterror activities in 80 countries - The wars have been acco…
Before each war, leaders should sit down, write down hypothetical outcomes and see if they still feel it makes sense. Then, after the conflict, come back and see how their estimates were. I'm hopeful that people would be more prudent if they could foresee the impact of their decisions.
Re: US federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $6.4T dollars
#4Summary: - Over 801,000 people have died due to direct war violence, and several times as many indirectly - Over 335,000 civilians have been killed as a result of the fighting - 37 million - the number of war refugees and displaced persons - The US federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $6.4 trillion dollars - The US government is conducting counterterror activities in 80 countries - The wars have been acco…
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Re: US federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $6.4T dollars
#5Summary: - Over 801,000 people have died due to direct war violence, and several times as many indirectly - Over 335,000 civilians have been killed as a result of the fighting - 37 million - the number of war refugees and displaced persons - The US federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $6.4 trillion dollars - The US government is conducting counterterror activities in 80 countries - The wars have been acco…
Before each war, leaders should sit down, write down hypothetical outcomes and see if they still feel it makes sense. Then, after the conflict, come back and see how their estimates were. I'm hopeful that people would be more prudent if they could foresee the impact of their decisions.
Would it ever make sense? This is not how greed and hatred work
Re: US federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $6.4T dollars
#6Summary: - Over 801,000 people have died due to direct war violence, and several times as many indirectly - Over 335,000 civilians have been killed as a result of the fighting - 37 million - the number of war refugees and displaced persons - The US federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $6.4 trillion dollars - The US government is conducting counterterror activities in 80 countries - The wars have been acco…
Before each war, leaders should sit down, write down hypothetical outcomes and see if they still feel it makes sense. Then, after the conflict, come back and see how their estimates were. I'm hopeful that people would be more prudent if they could foresee the impact of their decisions.
They do that, it happens that
"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes."
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#8Less money than the Fed has pumped into the economy over the same time period.
Re: US federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $6.4T dollars
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Before each war, leaders should sit down, write down hypothetical outcomes and see if they still feel it makes sense. Then, after the conflict, come back and see how their estimates were. I'm hopeful that people would be more prudent if they could foresee the impact of their decisions.
They do that, it happens that "War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group kno…
It reminds me of a recent quote I saw in the news:
"The top people in the Pentagon probably aren’t [in love with me], because they want to do nothing but fight wars so that all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs and make the planes and make everything else stay happy, but we're getting out of the endless wars."
Re: US federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $6.4T dollars
#10And despite all of the efforts the adversaries haven‘t effectively been taken down, the world is not a more secure place, the reputation of the US has taken damage, in a few years the next IS and taliban are coming, under another name.