Lost Before It Began
And the war has cost the lives of more than 1800 U.S. troops, killed unknown thousands of Afghans, and cost more than half a trillion dollars in taxpayers’ money. That’s not spin – those are the reasons that support for the illegal war continues to plummet. If that money ($571 billion according to the National Priorities Project) had not been wasted on the war in Afghanistan since 2001, it could instead have paid for ten years of health care for 12 million low-income people, or hired 840,000 elementary school teachers for ten years, or paid for converting 246 million households to all solar energy for a year. LINK
Nonsense.
ReplyDeleteSpending this kind of money on social programs in order to better humanity is waaaay to complicated.
It would take a little bit of thought, and planning.
It is soooooo much easier to invade a country, give it some shock and awe, occupy that country as new colonists. And at the same time make millions and Billions of dollars for the uber elite.
War is a racket, always has been always will be.
Take the profit out of war, and you have taken the incentive to wage war out of the equation.
Of course the war-chest funds would never be spent on social projects but it puts the waste in some kind of perspective all the same. The UK MOD is even more inefficient and wasteful than its US equivalent. It gives the 'austerity' speeches about trimming the public sector their true value.
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