In my last column I emphasized that it was important for American citizens to demand to know what the real agendas are behind the wars of choice by the Bush and Obama regimes. These are major long term wars each lasting two to three times as long as World War II. Forbes reports that one million US soldiers have been injured in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
RT reports that the cost of keeping each US soldier in Afghanistan has risen from $1.3 million per soldier to $2.1 million per soldier. Matthew J. Nasutireports in the Kabul Press that it cost US taxpayers $50 million to kill one Taliban soldier. That means it cost $1 billion to kill 20 Taliban fighters. This is a war that can be won only at the cost of the total bankruptcy of the United States.
Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes have estimated that the current out-of-pocket and already incurred future costs of the Afghan and Iraq wars is at least $6 trillion.
In other words, it is the cost of these two wars that explain the explosion of the US public debt and the economic and political problems associated with this large debt.
What has America gained in return for $6 trillion and one million injured soldiers, many very severely?
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C'mon, man. Seriously? What has America gained? Several dozen new arms industry multi-millionaires. That's gotta be worth SOMETHING, right? Never mind that none of their sons and daughters would ever be seen in Afghanistan or Iraq, and the worst injury they get is either a paper cut while reading the Wall Street Journal, or a bruise on their hand from high-fiving their CEO for the 2 million dollar bonus this year. their reaction to a veteran trying on some new legs? A smile worthy of the Grinch....the taxpayers? the families, husbands and wives of the dead and maimed? F 'em. Over and over again. They apparently never get tired of it....USA! USA! USA!!!!!!!
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