Thursday, November 14, 2019

The Cost of the Wars on Terror since 9/11

This is a summary of the costs of post 9/11 wars as compiled at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs:

Over 480,000 have died due to direct war violence, and several times as many indirectly.

Over 244,000 civilians have been killed as a result of the fighting. 

21 million — the number of war refugees and displaced persons.

The US federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $5.9 trillion dollars.

The US government is conducting counterterror activities in 80 countries The wars have been accompanied by violations of human rights and civil liberties, in the US and abroad.

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