The U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could cost taxpayers a total of $2.4 trillion?

Question

according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
Why so much: due to the huge interest costs because combat is being financed with borrowed money. Is this sane.

Answer 1

From a financial standpoint it doesn't seem to make a lot of sense does it?

I was watching an interview with Ron Paul this morning and I believe the number he used was $8000 per American citizen for the total cost of the war.

Now, if you told me that I was in imminent danger of death then I might pony up that much money to save my life. But since the war in Iraq doesn't seem to have any correlation to my continued survival, it doesn't seem worth fighting. I haven't been shown a single piece of evidence that shows that the invasion of Iraq has made me safer. It does seem to have a created instability that didn't exist before however, and this could potentially lead to me being unsafe. So, I guess in reality I paid $8000 to become less-safe.

What a bum deal......

Answer 2

Wars have always cost.
My husband is there now.
Are you saying the quiet, comfy, large butted, ill healthed, badly mannered people of this country who have; too much time off, too much money, giant s.u.v.'s, plenty of gas, plenty of food oh and plenty of free time to watch basketball, football, and golf shouldn't pay for the wars that keep them in their la z boys? They pay for cnn, they pay to watch soldiers kill on the media, they pay for death scenes at the movies theater, they pay for the cooking channel, espn, the brand new ipods, and expensive furniture.

Wars cost. Your way of life costs others everyday, you pay for advertiseing on your korean jeans, italian tie, shoes from china. A war is a small small cost, why not just tally how a football star is worth millions per year for sunday games and how a doctor is worth millions to save lives and which is more worthy of your money? Why not say, well I do not want protection. Say, I give up my rights for protection and go wander into a country where bibles are contraband and people will stab you because bullets are expensive and you're not worth the time it takes to smelt more lead?

Wars cost. Human lives, not money! HUMAN lives are always more precious then the almighty doller. Why not just say ohh this war will ONLY cost 2.4 trillion and the numbers of lives lost will be so few compared to wars past? the rebuilding of a nation and the interim to finish the work we've started is worth the pennys on the dollers I already spew at senseless entertainment this silly sad spoiled nation has to offer me. I uphold the costs of war. Not because I was a soldier, not because my husband is, but because the world I've traveled is full of angry unhappy, spoiled, fighting humans who kill given the slightest provocation. People kill over thier favorite sports for crying in the rain, what a waste. The costs of security is that of humans who are willing to stand at the borders of a land, or travel beyond it. 2.4 trillion you say? ...well then maybe our taxes are just not finished rising.

Answer 3

I can sleep at night. I don't have to pray to Allah five times a day. I can be proud of what my parents and grandparents did to make this country great. My children and grandchildren get to live in a great country.
Few things in this world are cheap or easy. I think we can survive an occasional unbalanced budget. A strong military also makes success at diplomacy possible.
BTW, congrats on your 10,000.

Answer 4

Thats alot of money for invading, and what ever else they do there.