Here’s an excellent photo essay showing the human costs of war (h/t The Strategist)
AND…
Here’s how much Iraq and Afghanistan have cost us according to a few different sources:
The Congressional Research Service estimates the total cost of both wars to be just over $1trillion.
CostofWar.com estimates Iraq at over $700billion and Afghanistan at $255billion for a total of just under $1trillion dollars.
To give you better perspective that’s $1,000,000,000,000.00
Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes say the official costs are actually quite deceiving and estimate that the total costs of Iraq alone are closer to $3trillion dollars. He talks about it here at Big Think.
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Whoa thats a crazy amount of money! But the big questions is: was it worth it?
@Dan,
You’re right, that’s the underlying question of the whole thing. We’ll see, but at this point it doesn’t look good.
I appreciate your honesty in that regard. I have several friends who are in the military who “tow the party line” so to speak. While I don’t expect them to question
or undermine their “company.” I think we should try to be realistic about it.