The True Cost of Iraq/Afghanistan

When President Obama tells us the wars have cost a trillion dollars over the last decade, he is grotesquely underestimating the facts.  When all the costs are considered it is questionable that we will ever see our nation paid up.  One of the interesting things about this interesting article is that it is by an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, a right-wing if not libertarian think tank.  Evidence again that Ron Paul and Barney Frank were on the right track when they agreed to send out the "Dear Colleague" letter calling for major cuts in military spending.  We simply cannot go on spending in this fashion, and anyone, on the left or the right, who has given it any thought knows it.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MG20Ak01.html