David Matthews

US spent $5.6 trillion killing people in Middle East and Asia: Study

David Matthews / November 13, 2017 / 2 min readSyndicated

As the US prepares to send more troops to Afghanistan to combat ISIS and the Taliban, and the specter of a war hangs over every tweet the President writes about North Korea, it’s important to remember that the US has been fighting in and bombing several countries in the Middle East and Asia for 16 years. According to a new study, all that war has cost the US taxpayers $5.6 trillion.

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