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Title: The One Trillion Dollar War - Nothing To Show For It
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URL Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45365.htm
Published: Aug 26, 2016
Author: Joe Clifford
Post Date: 2016-08-26 21:44:06 by U don't know me
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The One Trillion Dollar War - Nothing To Show For It By Joe Clifford August 26, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - We have become so accustomed to war we don’t even bother to discuss it anymore. The war in Afghanistan has dragged on for almost 15 years, and it is no longer mentioned or discussed on corporate news. The clown show, sometimes called a presidential race, has been reduced to two candidates, both of whom are hated by the voting public, and neither has raised the issue of Afghanistan once. The candidates have not been asked about it, and neither has spoken about it. It is the silent war that appears to be never ending, but just because it is not discussed does not mean you are not paying for it. So far the tab is one trillion dollars and rising every day. To most of us a “trillion” dollars is a meaningless figure, because most readers, myself included, cannot relate to a “trillion”, but consider this. A trillion dollars looks like this: $1,000,000,000,000, and a billion looks like this: $1,000,000,000. A trillion dollars equals one thousand times a billion, so there are 1,000 billion in a trillion. Still can’t relate? How about billions? One billion equals 1,000 million. Still cannot relate. One trillion dollars spread out flat on the ground would cover 4 thousand square miles. If you stacked one trillion dollars in a pile, the pile would be 68,000 miles high. So what is the point? What do we have to show for our one trillion-dollar war? What have we accomplished? We have nothing to show, and have accomplished absolutely nothing. NOTHING!!! The Taliban now controls more land in Afghanistan than ever. US forces cannot venture into the Afghan countryside because they will get killed. The only place in the entire country that is considered under US and Afghan control is the capital city of Kabul, which coincidentally is where the US has its giant embassy with its Green Zone. However, even within Kabul, US troops usually resort to helicopters to get from one section of Kabul to another for fear of getting killed in cars or armored vehicles. Originally we went to Afghanistan to get Bin Laden and the perpetrators of 9/11, despite the fact that none of those perpetrators came from Afghanistan. They all originated in Saudi Arabia. The Taliban contacted the US government and said they were willing to give us Bin Laden if we presented proof or evidence that Bin Laden was responsible for 9/11. The US refused their offer, so the entire war was a wasted effort from day one. First we attacked the wrong country, and second, Bin Laden could have been handed over to us without any war. When the war did not go as expected, President Obama announced a new Drug War in Afghanistan. So how has that gone? We have spent about 10 billion dollars on the drug war, and the rate of opium and heroin production is now about 40 times greater than when the drug war began. Afghanistan now is responsible for about 85% of the worlds heroin production. The US nor the Afghan government can go into the highly productive heroin and opium areas for fear of their safety. Once outside Kabul, US soldiers are at great risk. The Taliban sells its heroin around the world and uses the money to finance its war against the occupation of their country by the US. So what are we doing there?? Who knows? The war is not good for the Afghan people, or the US army, and certainly not the American people. It goes on endlessly with no winner. At some point down the road, the US will be forced to end the occupation and leave Afghanistan to its own people. Isn’t that the way it should be? Since 9/11 cannot be used as a pretext for the endless Afghan war and occupation, the focus had to change. We began saying the Taliban had to be stopped from taking over the government. But wait; two opposing forces fighting to control a country is a civil war, i.e. North vs South in Civil War. What business is it of the US to get involved in another countries civil war? What give the US the right to decide who should rule Afghanistan? There is no such right! So in the end, we have no business being there, and never had a legitimate reason to get involved in the affairs of Afghanistan, but we have been for 15 years. One trillion dollars of your money has been spent on an illegitimate war which has resulted in absolute and total failure. But the Military Industrial Complex has grown rich, which just might be the point of this whole endless war. A wonderful example of corporate welfare. Will either of the two candidates end this nonsense? No, but Jill Stein will. What could have been done with one trillion dollars? How about infrastructure, how about Single Payer health care for all, how about free college for all? When Democrats, Republicans, and corporate media say such things are not affordable, they are lying. Easily affordable if we stopped our worldwide wars. All other major nations have these things; they can afford them because they don’t just do war. What fools we are.
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#1. To: All (#0)
Nothing for the average american citizen. I do not go to church every time the doors are opened, but I love Jesus Christ. I am only human and fail Him daily. I believe Jesus is the Son of God, was born of a virgin, was crucified on a cross, died for my sins and rose from the dead and that He loves us dearly, and is faithful to forgive us of our sins. But He says that if you deny me in front of your friends I will deny you in front of my Father. Can I get an Amen!
Indeed and it is good the realisation has dawned. You have derived no benefit from the wars of the last fifteen years. The Taliban still exists and grows stronger, the muslim terrorists now terrorise the world and even with your help. There is no Pax Americana, to think american intervention brings peace to the world is a falacy, your nation teeters on bankruptcy and fascism rises among you
On this there one this about a wth that there's the Russia vs Israel You love If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys !
http://demonocracy.info/infographics/usa/us_debt/us_debt.html This website can help you relate to $1T or the whole federal debt.
And we still are having to deal with a nut case in N Korea, after all these years. The answer is simple, there is no money when hostilities are ended. It is what Ike called the Military Industrial Complex.
Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. if you look around, we have gone so far down the the rat hole, the almighty is going to have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah, if we don't have a judgement come down on us. President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. --Clint Eastwood "I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
you haven't dealt with that nutcase in NK because you compromised. The most powerful nation in the world couldn't bring one of the smallest to heal. They fought you to a standstill and a few years later another one kicked your ass. You spent all your money for what? so you could send your industries to Asia? The communists were right, they said they would sell the last capitalist the rope to hang himself, they may not even need to sell you the rope
What you say is true, to a point. To clarify, it occurred because we, the American people were too cowardly to go to DC, New York, etc, and hang the SOB's that have controlled and misdirected our policies, and then install patriots. We the American People, should have cleaned out the GOPe, DNCe, the halls of Congress, the White House, the CFR / Trilateral Commission, a lot of other "think tanks", the FED Reserve, the Media, and academia a looooooong time ago. And we still suffer for not doing it! One last point: GET THE US OUT OF THE UN, GET THE UN OUT OF THE US !! Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. if you look around, we have gone so far down the the rat hole, the almighty is going to have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah, if we don't have a judgement come down on us. President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. --Clint Eastwood "I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
Why? Is he going to conquer the world?
Your article is off by a mere 20 TRILLION DOLLARS.
It ain't like Ike didn't try to warn us.
Thats almost as bad as a $10 trillion war on poverty with nothing but more poverty to show for it!
You are not cowardly, you are taught from an early age that this is the way things are. You are brainwashed into thinking the system is good. The problem really is you are too well fed and your system is designed to keep you focused at a local level. You are against the centralisation of power and yet the real power is centralised
Well, our opinions differ. I contend we should have overthrown those that have caused us these problems, or not allowed them to get into position to do it.
Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. if you look around, we have gone so far down the the rat hole, the almighty is going to have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah, if we don't have a judgement come down on us. President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. --Clint Eastwood "I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
What could have been done with one trillion dollars?
#2. To: U don't know me (#0)
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What fools we are
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#4. To: U don't know me (#0)
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To most of us a “trillion” dollars is a meaningless figure, because most readers, myself included, cannot relate to a “trillion”, but consider this.
#5. To: paraclete (#2)
#6. To: Stoner (#5)
And we still are having to deal with a nut case in N Korea,
#7. To: paraclete (#6)
#8. To: paraclete (#6)
And we still are having to deal with a nut case in N Korea
#9. To: U don't know me (#0)
The One Trillion Dollar War - Nothing To Show For It
#10. To: U don't know me (#0)
>>What fools we are.
#11. To: U don't know me (#0)
#12. To: Stoner (#7)
To clarify, it occurred because we, the American people were too cowardly
#13. To: paraclete (#12)
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