U.S. Marines prepare to return fire during a security patrol in Nawa district in Helmand province, Afghanistan, Aug. 14, 2009. The Marines, assigned to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, are deployed with Regimental Combat Team 3 to conduct counterinsurgency operations with Afghan forces in southern Afghanistan. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Artur Shvartsberg
$1tn Cost Of Longest US War Hastens Retreat From Military Intervention -- Financial Times
The Afghanistan war, the longest overseas conflict in American history, has cost the US taxpayer nearly $1tn and will require spending several hundred billion dollars more after it officially ends this month, according to Financial Times calculations and independent researchers.
Around 80 per cent of that spending on the Afghanistan conflict has taken place during the presidency of Barack Obama, who sharply increased the US military presence in the country after taking office in 2009.
The enormous bill for the 13-year conflict, which has never been detailed by the government, will add to the pervasive scepticism about the war in the US, where opinion polls show a majority of Americans believe it was a bad idea.
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My Comment: What I find interesting about this report is this little tidbit of information .... Around 80 per cent of that spending on the Afghanistan conflict has taken place during the presidency of Barack Obama.
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I'd like to know why this needs a follow-up.
The war is not over .... that is why the cost of it will continue to climb.
Like Iraq, this war will never end.
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