[andyt]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/u-cost-war-least-3-7-trillion-counting-110411362.html

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What did the United States gain for its trillions?
Strategically, the results for the United States are mixed. Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein are dead, but Iraq and Afghanistan are far from stable democracies. Iran has gained influence in the Gulf and the Taliban, though ousted from government, remain a viable military force in Afghanistan.
"The United States has been extremely successful in protecting the homeland," said George Friedman, founder of STRATFOR, a U.S.-based intelligence company.
"Al Qaeda in Afghanistan was capable of mounting very sophisticated, complex, operations on an intercontinental basis. That organization with that capability has not only been substantially reduced, it seems to have been shattered," Friedman said.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Wow, I figured the dollar amount would be MUCH higher

[Bruce_the_vii]

You know the left wing will say, if they aren't outright peaceniks, that wars are always a mess. That was Trudeau's words for it, "they are always a mess". Now in my life I've seen this in Kladioscope colours. Hussein and the terrorists set the world back, damaged the USA. A "mess".

[bootlegga]

It looks like you didn't read the article very closely. The current cost of war is between $1.3 trillion and $2.7 trillion.

Quote:

Specific war spending over the past 10 years, when expressed in 2011 dollars, comes to $1.3 trillion, the "Costs of War" project found....

In the 10 years since U.S. troops went into Afghanistan to root out the al Qaeda leaders behind the September 11, 2001, attacks, spending on the conflicts totaled $2.3 trillion to $2.7 trillion.

The $3.7 trillion is the total cost (including future expenses like veteran's aid, interest, etc)

Quote:

The final bill will run at least $3.7 trillion and could reach as high as $4.4 trillion, according to the research project "Costs of War" by Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies.

I'm not disputing that it is an enormous sum, just that you headline is misleading.