T. W. A. T. (The War Against Terror)

[ChrisJones 7,973]

The new annual report has been released by the Cost Of War project at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

The cost of the 20 year war on terror stands at $8 trillion with 900,000 dead and is current up to the recent $25billion acquisition from the Biden administration in May this year. The dollar value is the post-wars cost and not the direct cost of the wars themselves!

They include "Department of Defense Overseas Contingency Operations funding; State Department war expenditures and counterterror war-related costs, including war-related increases to the Pentagon’s base budget; care for veterans to date and in the future; Department of Homeland Security spending; and interest payments on borrowing for these wars."

"The death toll, standing at an estimated 897,000 to 929,000, includes U.S. military members, allied fighters, opposition fighters, civilians, journalists and humanitarian aid workers who were killed as a direct result of war, whether by bombs, bullets or fire. It does not, the researchers noted, include the many indirect deaths the war on terror has caused by way of disease, displacement and loss of access to food or clean drinking water."

Sleepy cited the report as he defended his decision to withdraw from Afghanistan.

This has cost the American taxpayer $300 million a day for 20 years. All this, through 20 years and 4 presidential administrations, to replace the Taliban with the... Taliban.

 

[Greb147 6,808]

7 minutes ago, ChrisJones said:

The new annual report has been released by the Cost Of War project at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

The cost of the 20 year war on terror stands at $8 trillion with 900,000 dead and is current up to the recent $25billion acquisition from the Biden administration in May this year. The dollar value is the post-wars cost and not the direct cost of the wars themselves!

They include "Department of Defense Overseas Contingency Operations funding; State Department war expenditures and counterterror war-related costs, including war-related increases to the Pentagon’s base budget; care for veterans to date and in the future; Department of Homeland Security spending; and interest payments on borrowing for these wars."

"The death toll, standing at an estimated 897,000 to 929,000, includes U.S. military members, allied fighters, opposition fighters, civilians, journalists and humanitarian aid workers who were killed as a direct result of war, whether by bombs, bullets or fire. It does not, the researchers noted, include the many indirect deaths the war on terror has caused by way of disease, displacement and loss of access to food or clean drinking water."

Sleepy cited the report as he defended his decision to withdraw from Afghanistan.

This has cost the American taxpayer $300 million a day for 20 years. All this, through 20 years and 4 presidential administrations, to replace the Taliban with the... Taliban.

 

I don't think  it really made an impact on terrorism in the west either. 

 

[ChrisJones 7,973]

3 minutes ago, Greb147 said:

I don't think  it really made an impact on terrorism in the west either.

Hard to say. If it has it certainly hasn't justified the cost in monetary or civil liberty terms. I can only speak from the US side but watching the collapse in Kabul while being told to trust the government... How anyone can vote for the big two in either country is frankly baffling.

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The problem is the men that decide to go to war are never held accountable.      War is rich man's racket.