The latest figures on the U.S.’s international War on Terror show that American taxpayers are on the hook for between $5 trillion and $8 trillion in war spending over the next several decades. Yet there’s little hope of victory.
A report just released by the Cost of War Project reveals: “As of August 2016, the US has already appropriated, spent, or taken on obligations to spend more than $3.6 trillion in current dollars on the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Syria and on Homeland Security (2001 through fiscal year 2016). To this total should be added the approximately $65 billion in dedicated war spending the Department of Defense and State Department have requested for the next fiscal year, 2017, along with an additional nearly $32 billion requested for the Department of Homeland Security in 2017, and estimated spending on veterans in future years. When those are included, the total US budgetary cost of the wars reaches $4.79 trillion.”
But that’s not all. Because the nation has borrowed so much of the money used to fund the wars, Americans will pay $1 trillion in interest alone into 2023.
That figure will continue to snowball over the next several decades “unless the U.S. changes the way it pays for the wars,” the report said.
Read the full report.
Meanwhile, a recent headline from The Telegraph provides insight into how much ground the U.S. has gained from its Middle Eastern adventures.
From the article, titled “American commandos ‘forced to run away’ from US-backed Syrian rebels”:
Video footage appears to show U.S. commandos fleeing a Syrian town under a barrage of abuse and insults hurled at them by fighters from the American-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebel group.
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The footage shows a crowd of rebel fighters in the town of al-Rai near the Turkish border, which was captured from Isil by Syrian rebel groups with the backing of Turkey. Turkey, which launched a military incursion into Syria in late August, has been backing the FSA.
The fighters scream anti-American chants as a column of pick-up trucks carrying US commandos drives away from them.
“Christians and Americans have no place among us,” shouts one man in the video. “They want to wage a crusader war to occupy Syria.”
Another man calls out: “The collaborators of America are dogs and pigs. They wage a crusader war against Syria and Islam. ”
Keep in mind, U.S. taxpayers are paying in some way or another for all sides.
What a rip-off.
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