So roughly 100 were killed for every american dead in 9/11. Thas's a harsh punishment, US certainly doesn't know what mercy is .
Edit: missed by two orders of magnitude. Still, a lot.
Also: not a blame, just observations.
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
#12Earlier 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…
If they made their projections public that might cut down on the racket aspect.
Re: US federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $6.4T dollars
#13A little arithmetic:
6.4T USD / 128M US households = 50K USD/household
50K USD/household/ 9 years = 5.5K USD/household/yr
Re: US federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $6.4T dollars
#14I believe the $6.4T doesn't include the >$1T spent domestically on security theater (TSA), NatSec tech used for low level crimes (eg: Fusion Centers) and bulk surveillance of Americans not suspected of a crime.
Re: US federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $6.4T dollars
#15I woke up yesterday to a breaking news that the Trump admin announced new troop withdraws from Iraq and Afghanistan and was really encouraged.
War is one of those things I’ve gone from hawk to dove on as I’ve become older. I want a total drawdown in the entire Middle East, and I would love to see the majority of our overseas bases closed.
Re: US federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $6.4T dollars
#16Earlier 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…
Seems like you're presuming too much strategic thinking on the part of our political leadership.
Re: US federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $6.4T dollars
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
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."
That same person boasts about an increased pentagon budget. Where does he think that money goes?
It doesn’t seem like either leading candidate has taken a position on the military-industrial complex.
Re: US federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $6.4T dollars
#18Earlier 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.
Would it ever make sense? This is not how greed and hatred work
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Re: US federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $6.4T dollars
#19How many trillions of dollars has the USA saved on oil costs by keeping the middle east in a constant state of turmoil, though?
https://www.cfr.org/timeline/oil-dependence-and-us-foreign-p...
Re: US federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $6.4T dollars
#20Is the $6.4T peer reviewed? How did they derive this amount of money? Is there an itemized breakdown?