How Much Does It Cost The U.S. To Blow Up Captured U.S. Military Hardware In Iraq

An M1 Abrams tank of the Iraqi security forces is seen during clashes with the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Ramadi, May 31, 2014. REUTERS/ Ali al-Mashhadani

How Much It Costs The U.S. To Blow Up Captured U.S. Military Hardware In Iraq -- Jason Field, Reuters

Last week was a weird one for American military hardware.

In the United States, Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles (MRAPs), AR-15s and camouflage body armor all made an appearance on the streets of a suburb in the heartland, helping to give a tense situation the push needed to turn into a week of riots. American citizens in Ferguson, Missouri, feeling they were being occupied by a foreign army, rather than their friendly neighborhood cop on the beat.

MRAPs didn’t get a better rap overseas, either. In what’s still being called Iraq — at least for the sake of convenience — the U.S. Air Force has resumed bombing missions in the northern part of the “country.” The aim of the missions is stated as being the defense of a minority group known as the Yazidis, who practice a religion unique to themselves and are under threat by the Islamic State, a jihadi group that controls a large chunk of territory in Syria and Iraq.

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My Comment: Steve Ganyard sums it up best in his latest tweet ....

Yesterday a $28M American Reaper shot a $70k Hellfire that blew up a $600k MRAP given to Iraq, stolen by ISIS. Your tax dollars at "work".
— Steve Ganyard (@SteveGanyard) August 15, 2014