The U S  Spent 5 Trillion On War Since 2001
Channel: Logan Liberty
Date: 2018-11-15

According to a study done by Brown University, the United States has spent 5.933 trillion dollars, since 2001, on war. This, of course, is a little higher than what the Pentagon reports, however, what the Pentagon doesn’t report on are the consequential costs of these conflicts that go to deal with medical bills for the soldiers who come back broken from these disastrous conflicts that as far as one can see will never end. The only way I see these wars ending is via bankruptcy or a dissolution of the United States Federal Government much like what happened with the Soviet Union. 
 This estimate is being generous too as it doesn’t factor in our foreign policy in the 90s… and I purposefully narrowed it to after the 90s because the cold war was over. And from what I’ve seen military spending in the 90s was in the hundreds of billions by conservative numbers and possibly within the trillion marks. (https://www.infoplease.com/us/military-personnel/us-military-spending-1946-2009)
 There are many ways I want to tackle this… there are many ways I could tackle this. I want to start from the conservative perspective… people that I consider my ideological friends. Conservatives should be outraged about this… at least honest conservatives should. For whatever reason conservatives have ideological goggles on that makes them impervious from any sort of skeptical or analytical thinking that would lead them to question military action. Despite their anti-government and anti-spending rhetoric, they are the biggest advocates for a strong military state and global dominance. Even if it bankrupts the country. The conservative rhetoric about fiscal responsibility is a facade. Likewise, the talk about conservatives and Republicans being for a limited government is also a facade. They want a limited government at home… but they have no problem with an expansive military dictatorship as long as it’s other people under the boot of the United States Federal Government. 
 Now, onto the supposed anti-war left. You all got duped by your party. Your party is not anti-war nor has it ever been. Obama was the droning chief. Martin Luther King had a dream… Barack Hussein Obama had a drone. 
 5 trillion dollars on slaughtering innocent people overseas… bombing weddings, funerals, and children is a disgrace. I don’t even know what else you could possibly say about this. Unfortunately, things are only going to get worse. The debt will increase, we’ll kill more innocent people, we’ll fund more rebel groups that’ll eventually turn on us, we’ll send more and more Americans overseas to kill innocent people… and we’ll continue this perpetual state of warfare that we are stuck in. 
 This is so deeply rooted in our current federal government, and culture it seems, it will never it. This predates George W. Bush… you could argue it goes as far back as Herbert Hoover. But it really has its roots in the United States Federal Government funding Israel in their conflict against Palestine, the United States and United Kingdom backed rebels that overthrew the democratically elected Iranian leader Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953, the sanctions put on Iraq in the 90s that lead to dead children, the troops on the Arabian Peninsula, the United States funding the Mujahideen which later became the Taliban and Al-Quaeda, the United States Federal Government supplying Saddam Hussein weapons to use against Iran… and this is all pre-9/11. This all led to 9/11.  
 It is apparent that this constant state of stealing money from the productive taxpayers to fund the slaughtering and further destabilization of the middle east will never end. Pretty soon 5.933 trillion will be 9.933 trillion if it isn’t already when we factor in the 90s and the late 80s. 
 I hope for a future world where we can stop senseless conflicts and where both political extremes can be someone ideological consistent. The best thing we could do for the troops is to bring them home to their families. 

SOURCE: https://news.antiwar.com/2018/11/14/study-us-has-spent-5-9-trillion-on-wars-since-2001/
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