$5.8 Trillion
- Lucian@going2paris.net
- Oct 1, 2021
- 1 min read
White Hall, Virginia
October 1, 2021
The U.S. government has never provided a full accounting of the costs of America's so-called “forever wars” in Afghanistan and Iraq. But researchers at Brown University estimate that the U.S. has spent $5.8 trillion on the war in Afghanistan and other conflicts stemming from the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
Which is a small fraction of what we have spent on the "War on Poverty" since 1965, and what did we get from that? A permanent underclass that did not exist before......