The US War on Terror Has Cost $5 Trillion and Increased Terrorism by 6,500%

H/t reader squodgy:

“Even those of us who already realise that our taxes are being used by the Banks to perpetuate war and fear should be astounded by this simple analysis.”


The US War on Terror Has Cost $5 Trillion and Increased Terrorism by 6,500%:

On September 11, 2001, one of the most tragic events in recent American history took place. Close to 3,000 civilians lost their lives in horrific terror attacks that took place on American soil. Fifteen years later, it is time to ask the question: have our counterterror efforts helped to reduce the amount of terrorism in the world? Or at the very least, have they tried to make the world safer?

According to a report released by Dr. Neta Crawford, professor of political science at Brown University, spending by the United States Departments of Defense, State, Homeland Security, and Veteran Affairs since 9/11 is now close to $5 trillion USD. Before we have the chance to ask how a country that has racked up over $19.3 trillion USD in debt can spend $5 trillion USD on war, the focus of this article is to ask: What has all of this spending achieved?

As Reader Supported News reported at the end of last year, terrorism has increased 6,500 percent since 2002 (they probably should rename it “the war of terror”). In 2014, the outlet noted, it was reported that 74 percent of all terror-related casualties occurred in Iraq, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, or Syria. As stated by Paul Gottinger, a staff reporter for Reader Supported News, out of the aforementioned countries, “only Nigeria did not experience either U.S. air strikes or a military occupation in that year.”

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2 thoughts on “The US War on Terror Has Cost $5 Trillion and Increased Terrorism by 6,500%”

  1. Many of us will recall that dunce of a human, Dubya Bush.

    He proclaimed in the aftermath of the Bush/Cheney sanctioned Saudi/israeli blowing up of the WTC to frighten Joe BigMac into submission and surveillance………. the New War on Terror…..

    …an excuse for the Rothschild bankster establishment (on whose instructions the whole event was based) to implement the “Perpetual War as predicted in 1984 by George Orwell.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCMfiGseUIc

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