Almost $5 Trillion
September 15, 2016
That is the latest estimate for the cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the other countries we have recently waged war in or against. And of course, the human cost is incalculable.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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