It is hard to believe that the war in Afghanistan is eight years old. I remember vividly the day it started. I was in New York City, less than one month after the 9/11 attacks. I had wandered down to Ground Zero, where there was some kind of plywood viewing platform for gawkers like me. I overheard an NYPD cop, talking to some midwestern-looking tourist, use the word "Afghanistan," and immediately knew that an attack had started. And the front page of today's New York Times reported that Obama has ruled out a large reduction in the force in Afghanistan.
But at what cost? We received this press release from the excellent National Priorities Project about the costs of the war. It reads well alongside the article from TomDispatch I reposted a couple of days about the cost of the bank bailout, Follow the Money (and especially with the visual depiction of $1 trillion the author links to).
Eight Years of U.S. War in Afghanistan
The dollars add up.
Cost of War Counters
War spending trade-offs
Quick facts
Cost of War in Afghanistan
www.nationalpriorities.org