In addition to direct costs, there are the opportunity costs of these terrible wars. Since 2001 we Americans allowed US manufacturing to be hollowed out, failed to solve immigration, stood idly by as wealth accumulated in the hands of an ever smaller percentage of our citizens, watched drug deaths climb over 100K per annum, ...
If this is what victory looks like, I would hate to see defeat.
If this is what victory looks like, I would hate to see defeat.