What Have We Gotten For The Trillion Dollars We Have Spent On Wars In Afghanistan, Iraq And Libya? (invasion, crime)

[All American NYC]

Over a trillion U.S. taxpayer dollars have been spent on wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. Whether you are for the wars or against the wars, it is important for all of us to step back and evaluate what we have really gotten for all of that money.

Can someone tell me?

We seem to have money to blow.

[ovcatto]

Well it is far too early to judge what we got for the estimate $1 billion spent in Libya. As for Iraq not much of anything which many of us on the left argued more than 8 years ago when we quite correctly pointed out that the invasion of Iraq retarded the war in Afghanistan which slowly, but surely, has been responsible for the deteriorated state of al Qaeda. Perhaps you should have been asking some of these questions in 2003 when the rest of us were.

[2e1m5a]

Absolutely nothing! The crime of the century. Too little too late, we were saying this before invading Iraq. Unfortunately about half of the American population kept electing GW because he "kept us safe at home" (even though strangely we suffered the worst attack in American history while he was in office). Afghanistan I somewhat felt was necessary. Libya was also unnecessary although no where near as criminal as Iraq.

[Wapasha]

Originally Posted by ovcatto

Well it is far too early to judge what we got for the estimate $1 billion spent in Libya. As for Iraq not much of anything which many of us on the left argued more than 8 years ago when we quite correctly pointed out that the invasion of Iraq retarded the war in Afghanistan which slowly, but surely, has been responsible for the deteriorated state of al Qaeda. Perhaps you should have been asking some of these questions in 2003 when the rest of us were.

Here is a link i found

Cost of War to the United States | COSTOFWAR.COM

What cost - freedom? And what guarantee will we ever have that any country will remain free or find freedom, too bad we cannot read the future before we start a war.