| Teesus | Date: Wednesday, 2013/09/11, 11:16 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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Paul Craig Roberts
Washington has been at war for 12 years. According to experts such as Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes, these wars have cost Americans approximately $6 trillion, enough to keep Social Security and Medicare sound for years.
All there is to show for 12 years of war is fat bank balances for the armament industries and a list of destroyed countries with millions of dead and dislocated people who never lifted a hand against the United States.The cost paid by American troops and taxpayers is extreme. Secretary of Veteran Affairs Erik Shinseki reported in November 2009 that “more veterans have committed suicide since 2001 than we have lost on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.” Many thousands of our troops
have suffered amputations and traumatic brain injuries.
At the Marine Corps War College Jim Lacey calculated that the annual cost of the Afghan war was $1.5 billion for each al-Qaeda member in Afghanistan.
Many US and coalition troops paid with their lives for every one al-Qaeda member killed. On no basis has the war ever made sense.Washington’s wars have destroyed the favorable image of the United States created over the decades of the cold war. No longer the hope of mankind, the US today is viewed as a threat whose government cannot be trusted.
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| Scorpone | Date: Wednesday, 2013/09/11, 8:56 PM | Message # 2 | DMCA |
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very compelling reading...
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