The cost of bin Laden: $3 trillion over 15 years (middle east, Afghanistan, Clinton)

[Frank DeForrest]

WINNING?

The cost of bin Laden: $3 trillion over 15 years - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_exclusive/20110506/pl_yblog_exclusive/the-cost-of-bin-laden-3-trillion-over-15-years - broken link)

What do we have to show for that tab? Two wars that continue to occupy 150,000 troops and tie up a quarter of our defense budget; a bloated homeland-security apparatus that has at times pushed the bounds of civil liberty; soaring oil prices partially attributable to the global war on bin Laden's terrorist network; and a chunk of our mounting national debt, which threatens to hobble the economy unless lawmakers compromise on an unprecedented deficit-reduction deal.

The cherry on top. I can hardly wait until every municipality has them circling overhead to protect us from ourselves.

Perhaps the biggest economic silver lining from our bin Laden spending, if there is one, is the accelerated development of unmanned aircraft. That's our $3 trillion windfall, so far: Predator drones.

[HeyHolliday!]

Isn't it great that we have cut spending domestically and Americans have to suffer while we keep spending billion in Afghanistan which is a barren wasteland.

Both Republicans and Democrats are to blame for this 3 trillion mess. Getting out of the wars could help our budget deficit.

[kevinm]

Originally Posted by Frank DeForrest

WINNING?

The cost of bin Laden: $3 trillion over 15 years - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_exclusive/20110506/pl_yblog_exclusive/the-cost-of-bin-laden-3-trillion-over-15-years - broken link)

The cherry on top. I can hardly wait until every municipality has them circling overhead to protect us from ourselves.

The cost of "Obama". $11 Trillion and rising.

[Wayland Woman]

So maybe we'll be able tor recover part of the money spent on bin Laden after we go through all that data sources found at his compound. He was a rich man who has financed terror is the world for almost a decade and he had bank accounts we can seize. What were we suppose to do? Just say, "Oh, well. It costs too much to hunt him down" and forget about doing it? That 3 trillion wasn't all spent on bin Laden, anyway. Much of it was spent going on a wild goose chase in a country we shouldn't have been in.

[RCCCB]

Originally Posted by Frank DeForrest

WINNING?

The cost of bin Laden: $3 trillion over 15 years - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_exclusive/20110506/pl_yblog_exclusive/the-cost-of-bin-laden-3-trillion-over-15-years - broken link)

The cherry on top. I can hardly wait until every municipality has them circling overhead to protect us from ourselves.

Not really because we were going after the organization he grew as well.

If you are mad though, you can call Clinton and yell at him for not killing him the few times he had him. (which was among the worst choices of his career IMO)

[edwardianlady]

America never can keep it's nose out of other countries business.No wonder groups such as al queda, will always gain new members and faces . While America will go bankrupt.

[sickofnyc]

Originally Posted by Wayland Woman

So maybe we'll be able tor recover part of the money spent on bin Laden after we go through all that data sources found at his compound. He was a rich man who has financed terror is the world for almost a decade and he had bank accounts we can seize. What were we suppose to do? Just say, "Oh, well. It costs too much to hunt him down" and forget about doing it? That 3 trillion wasn't all spent on bin Laden, anyway. Much of it was spent going on a wild goose chase in a country we shouldn't have been in.

Bin Laden: Goal is to bankrupt U.S.

He said the mujahedeen fighters did the same thing to the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s, "using guerrilla warfare and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical superpowers."

"We, alongside the mujahedeen, bled Russia for 10 years until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat," bin Laden said.
He also said al Qaeda has found it "easy for us to provoke and bait this administration."

"All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al Qaeda, in order to make generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic and political losses without their achieving anything of note other than some benefits for their private corporations," bin Laden said.
Bin Laden: Goal is to bankrupt U.S. - CNN

Can anyone deny that he got what he wanted?

[Frank DeForrest]

Originally Posted by RCCCB

Not really because we were going after the organization he grew as well.

If you are mad though, you can call Clinton and yell at him for not killing him the few times he had him. (which was among the worst choices of his career IMO)

Maybe you need to study up on why he targeted the US in the first place (see post #6 for starters)
Anyway, our efforts in the middle east have grown his organization beyond what he could have ever hoped to do on his own.

[burdell]

Originally Posted by RCCCB

Not really because we were going after the organization he grew as well.

If you are mad though, you can call Clinton and yell at him for not killing him the few times he had him. (which was among the worst choices of his career IMO)

Clinton had bin Laden like Saddam had WMDs when we invaded..

[EinsteinsGhost]

Originally Posted by IndianaProud

America never can keep it's nose out of other countries business.No wonder groups such as al queda, will always gain new members and faces . While America will go bankrupt.

Osama and Al Qaeda are in fact the result of that nosiness, going back over three decades, and foreign/energy policies going back at least six decades, if not more.