The cost of any war will always be expensive. That’s why it’s also a big business opportunity and therefore worth fighting for especially among the vested-interest establishment in the US administration. If ten of thousands of civilians are killed in between the process it’s called “collateral damage”; unfortunate but necessary. As far as “they” who are killed, not us, it’s ok.
U.S. military operations, including the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, have cost $904 billion since 2001 and could top $1.7 trillion by 2018, even with big cuts in overseas troop deployments, a report said on Monday.
A new study released by the nonpartisan Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, or CSBA, said the Iraq conflict’s $687 billion price tag alone now exceeds the cost of every past U.S. war except for World War II, when expenditures are adjusted for inflation.
With another $184 billion in spending for Afghanistan included, the two conflicts surpass the cost of the Vietnam War by about 50 percent, the report said.
Although the war is expensive, they will spread it or just make a new war to have many project of reconstruction…
That how their economy was built with