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Report: US Spent $5 Trillion On Iraq, Afghanistan Wars
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The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost U.S. taxpayers almost $5 trillion, according to a Brown University report released 15 years after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
The $4.79 trillion figure is “so large as to be almost incomprehensible,” study author Neta Crawford wrote. For context, the U.S. gross domestic product was an estimated $17.9 trillion in 2015, according to the International Monetary Fund.
That almost $5 trillion figure also outpaces the GDP of Japan, the world's third-largest economy. But even that doesn't quantify the full cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, Crawford noted.
“A full accounting of any war’s burdens cannot be places in columns on a ledger,” she wrote. “From the civilians harmed or displaced by violence, to the soldiers killed and wounded, to the children who play years later on roads and fields sown with improvised explosive devices and cluster bombs, no set of numbers can convey the human toll of the wars.”
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