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$6.4 Trillion And Counting - How The Military-Industrial Complex Hijacked The War On Terror
 [Zero] Congress just passed a near trillion dollar military budget at a time when the United States faces no evident state threats at home or abroad. Ike was right.Illustrating Ike’s prescient warning, Brown University’s respected Watson Institute just released a major study which found that the so-called ’wars on terror’ in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Pakistan have cost US taxpayers $6.4 trillion since they began in 2001. The extensive study found that over 800,000 people have died as a result of these military operations, a third of them civilians. An additional 21 million civilians have been displaced by US military operations. According to the Pentagon, these US wars have so far cost each American taxpayer $7,623 ‐ and that’s a very conservative estimate. Most of this money has been quietly added to the US national debt of over $23 trillion. Wars on credit hide the true cost and pain from the public. As General Eisenhower warned, military spending has engulfed the nation. Posted by: Besoeker 2020-01-20 |
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