Direct costs: $6 Trillion USD.
Indirect costs: $2 Trillion USD.
Cultural costs: metal detectors everywhere, tapped phone lines, self censoring, no fly lists, assumed guilty and imprisoned until even formally charged years later, constant state of tension/anxiety about terror.
Return: 6 middle eastern countries in ruin/war, taliban and al'queda reborn as ISIS and Korasan, a few leaders dead and new ones inspired each day, thousands of dead US soldiers, millions of dead civilians.
Just to put in perspective: the cost of this war of terror, if we paid the family of every one that has died, we could give each family 8 million dollars. If we can throw that kind of change around, I'm guessing there are some different directions we could look at.
Indirect costs: $2 Trillion USD.
Cultural costs: metal detectors everywhere, tapped phone lines, self censoring, no fly lists, assumed guilty and imprisoned until even formally charged years later, constant state of tension/anxiety about terror.
Return: 6 middle eastern countries in ruin/war, taliban and al'queda reborn as ISIS and Korasan, a few leaders dead and new ones inspired each day, thousands of dead US soldiers, millions of dead civilians.
Just to put in perspective: the cost of this war of terror, if we paid the family of every one that has died, we could give each family 8 million dollars. If we can throw that kind of change around, I'm guessing there are some different directions we could look at.
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