A Staggeringly Well-Funded Blowback Machine | History News Network - 0 views
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Watson Institute published an estimate of the taxpayer dollars that will have gone into America’s war on terror from September 12, 2001, through fiscal year 2018. That figure: a cool $5.6 trillion (including the future costs of caring for our war vets)
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On average, that’s at least $23,386 per taxpayer.
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how could you even begin to put a dollars-and-cents value on the larger human costs of those wars
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