Money is the sinews of war and Joe Biden recognizes it, putting forward the financial argument to justify the withdrawal of American troops.
"We have spent more than 1000 billion dollars in twenty years and equipped more than 300,000 Afghan soldiers,"
the American president shamelessly recalled on August 16, the day after the fall of Kabul.
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Joe Biden, accountant of the bloody American retirement from Afghanistan
Since the World Trade Center attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States seemed to spend lavishly on its counterterrorism wars.
As early as 2007, interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq proved to be more costly than the Vietnam War, according to calculations by the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, a bipartisan think tank based in Washington.
Now, the bill for interventions in the Middle East, in the order of 6,000 to 7,000 billion dollars according to the Pentagon, exceeds (in constant dollars) that of the Second World War.
This effort is also incommensurate by yardstick
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