Press TV
November 16, 2018
A study has revealed that the United States has spent nearly $6 trillion on wars that directly contributed to the deaths of about half a million people since the September 11, 2001 attacks.
The “Costs of War” study was conducted by Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. It was published on Wednesday. A brief summary of this study was released last week.
The report takes stock of the US military spending and its Overseas Contingency Operations account, as well as “war-related spending by the Department of State, past and obligated spending for war veterans’ care, interest on the debt incurred to pay for the wars, and the prevention of and response to terrorism by the Department of Homeland Security.”
“The United States has appropriated and is obligated to spend an estimated $5.9 trillion (in current dollars) on the war on terror through Fiscal Year 2019, including direct war and war-related spending and obligations for future spending on post 9/11 war veterans,” the study said.
“In sum, high costs in war and war-related spending pose a national security concern because they are unsustainable,” the report concluded. “The public would be better served by increased transparency and by the development of a comprehensive strategy to end the wars and deal with other urgent national security priorities.”
The United States — under Republican George W. Bush’s presidency – launched the war on terror by invading Afghanistan on October 7, 2001 following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks which killed nearly 3,000 people in New York.
US officials assert that the attacks were carried out by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists but many experts have raised questions about the official account. They believe that rogue elements within the US government, such as former Vice President Dick Cheney, orchestrated the 9/11 attacks in order to accelerate the US war machine and advance the Zionist agenda.
Following the 9/11 attacks, the US and its allies invaded and occupied Afghanistan, and Washington also started intermittent drone strikes inside neighboring Pakistan. In early 2003, the US invaded Iraq under the pretext that the regime of Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. No such weapons, however, were ever found in Iraq.
The “Costs of War” study found that the “US military is conducting counter-terror activities in 76 countries, or about 39 percent of the world’s nations, vastly expanding [its mission] across the globe.” In addition, these operations “have been accompanied by violations of human rights and civil liberties, in the US and abroad.”
According to researchers, America’s so-called war on terrorism has killed up to 507,000 people in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
They estimated that “between 480,000 and 507,000 people have been killed in the United States’ post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.” This toll “does not include the more than 500,000 deaths from the war in Syria, raging since 2011” when US-sponsored militants started terrorist activities against the Syrian government.
The study acknowledged that the actual death toll is likely higher.
The death toll in Afghanistan, as of October 2018, stood at about 147,000 people, including Afghan security forces, civilians and Taliban fighters. The figure also included the 6,334 American fatalities.
The war on terrorism also left 65,000 people dead in Pakistan, including 90 American contractors, nearly 9,000 local security personnel and more than 23,000 civilians. The rest of the casualties were militants, according to the report.
From 268,000 to 295,000 people died in Iraq following the US-led invasion and occupation, the study said.
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An Outlook :
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>.. US population= Roughly 350 millions
>.. Afghanistan populationa= around
30 millions.
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That means that the ratio of the population of the US to Afghanistan is roughly 10.
.
So; according to Ghani;! 28000 Afghan hired soldiers and roughly about the same numbers of oppositions lost their lives since 2015.
.
((In order to simplify; the much higher rate of the civilian losses will be totally ignored))
Ghani also mentioned that US loses amounted to only 57 individuals during that very same time period since 2015.
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Now; if you closely look at the ratio of the US military advisers killed in Afghan killing fields; then you clearly be shocked to hear this extremely large ratio of the Afghan citizens who lost their lives compared to US losses ((trainers and mercenaries)) during that very same period of times.
An Outlook :
.
>.. US population= Roughly 350 millions
>.. Afghanistan populationa= around
30 millions.
========
That means that the ratio of the population of the US to Afghanistan is roughly 10.
.
So; according to Ghani;! 28000 Afghan hired soldiers and roughly about the same numbers of oppositions lost their lives since 2015.
.
((In order to simplify; the much higher rate of the civilian losses will be totally ignored))
Ghani also mentioned that US loses amounted to only 57 individuals during that very same time period since 2015.
…………….
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….
Now; if you closely look at the ratio of the US military advisers killed in Afghan killing fields; then you clearly be shocked to hear this extremely large ratio of the Afghan citizens who lost their lives compared to US losses ((trainers and mercenaries)) during that very same period of times.
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The ratio shockingly amounts to
roughly
1 to 10000.
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The ratio shockingly amounts to
roughly
1 to 10000.
*JUST THINK
ABOUT
IT !
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*One
to
ten thousands !
Basic security is provided
to
the US
mercenaries
in
expense of
local lives in Afghanistan.
*****
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No wonder they are
perpetuating the carnage
with impunity- there is no body
to speak out
on behshf
of
the oppressed people
of
Afghanistan.
I apologize!
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*THE RATIO
IS
ONE TO A THOUSAND !
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Stil; it
is
shockingly
extremely
high- STOP
THE MURDERERS !
*LEAVE
THE OEOPLE
OF
AFGHANISTAN
SLONE !
God damn
you- get out !
Why, the; so called proud, leaders
of
the neighboring
countries
are all totally
silent
about it ?????
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I guess they are all
having
their own unique
excuses.
But, one thing that they
have
in
common
is that
they are all easily swayed
by
special incentives !
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Monetary gains
naturally
comes
on top of
the list.
Where are the, so called,
CIVILIZED
US senate, Congress and judiciary members
to
show their
human side- they all, obviously,
have
a
great hope of conquering Afghanistan.
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THEY ARE ALL WELL-AWARE
OF
THEIR
UNOFFICIALLY DECLARATION OF UNCONVENTIONAL WAREFARE
ON
FREEDOM-LOVING AND MUSLIM REGULAR FOLKS
OF
GREAT AFGHANISTAN.
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WE ASK THE
HONORABLES
OF
THE
WHOLE WORLD
TO
STOP
THIS
GLOBAL
EXPLOITING PARASITES
FROM THESIR
EXTREME
TYPES
OF
PERPETUATEING GENOCIDES AND SAVAGERIES
IN
AFGHANISTAN !
DEAR
BROTHERS AND SISTERS !
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STOP
THE COWARD SAVAGES- SHARE INFORMATION AND SEND IT OUT
TO
THE
WHOLE CIVILIZED
WORLD !
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YOU CAN STOP
THE
PARASITES !
THEY ARE ALL
LIVING
OFF
YOUR LABORING TAX AND STOLEN MONEY- STOP THE
SAVAGES !
Baghlani, you Pakistani traitor. Let the ameerikins leave, the Taliban will take over and you will continue to be ass raped and the oppression of freedom will return. But of course, that is what cowards like u want.
PLEASE CLOSELY
EXAMINE THIS
ALBINO PUNK !
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This Albino man
is
representing
a
typical foreign mercenary
who is willing to sell
his
ugly mama
for
a dollar.