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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
#62How 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...
It can't be all that many, since the US is now a net exporter.
20 years later, after importing around 4 billion net barrels per year for that period. We now had seven months where we shipped around ten million more barrels per month than we imported. Back to a net importer as of May though.
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=M...
Re: US federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $6.4T dollars
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Re: US federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $6.4T dollars
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The US destroyed their lives. Their communities were destroyed, their jobs vanished, and their loved ones were dead. Many certainly reacted despicably, but the US deserves most of the blame. The US gets blamed for the deaths that occured, but it won't get praise for the deaths that may have been prevented. Consider who Saddam Hussein was, how he came to power, how he stayed in power and what his dictatorship was li…
>Consider who Saddam Hussein was, how he came to power, how he stayed in power and what his dictatorship was like Though Hussein's power grab was later, let's not forget the US support for the Ba'ath party takeover. They were willing to purge communists, they must be good guys. Then we gave Hussein billions in aid, because if they're willing to kill Iranians they must be good guys. Even after hearing he was gassing K…
Don't get me wrong, I'm not necessarily in favor of any of these foreign interventions. I just don't accept that the US gets so much blame just for being involved at some level in a conflict that they have some strategic interest in.
Re: US federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $6.4T dollars
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Consider who Saddam Hussein was, how he came to power, how he stayed in power and what his dictatorship was like Though Hussein's power grab was later, let's not forget the US support for the Ba'ath party takeover. They were willing to purge communists, they must be good guys. Then we gave Hussein billions in aid, because if they're willing to kill Iranians they must be good guys. Even after hearing he was gassing K…
Don't get me wrong, I'm not necessarily in favor of any of these foreign interventions. I just don't accept that the US gets so much blame just for being involved at some level in a conflict that they have some strategic interest in.
We're talking about the Iraq War here, they deserve far more blame than they get.
Re: US federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $6.4T dollars
#66And 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.
The point of the war was never to accomplish anything. It was to burn money.
A mechanism to transfer money from people's paychecks to defense contracting companies.
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#67That is bullshit.
Everyone in the world knows that most dangerous countries are North Korea, Iran and Russia. So that US has to spend enormous amount of money to protect themselves.
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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.
But they did make their projections public.
"VICE PRES. DICK CHENEY: My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators."
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3080244/ns/meet_the_press/t/transc...