A U.S. Navy F/A-18C Hornet aircraft takes on fuel from an Air Force KC-10 Extender aircraft from the 908th Expeditionary Aerial Refueling Squadron during a combat patrol over Afghanistan on Dec. 11, 2008. DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Aaron Allmon, U.S. Air Force. (Released)From Reuters:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. military operations, including the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, have cost $904 billion since 2001 and could top $1.7 trillion by 2018, even with big cuts in overseas troop deployments, a report said on Monday.
A new study released by the nonpartisan Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, or CSBA, said the Iraq conflict's $687 billion price tag alone now exceeds the cost of every past U.S. war except for World War II, when expenditures are adjusted for inflation.
With another $184 billion in spending for Afghanistan included, the two conflicts surpass the cost of the Vietnam War by about 50 percent, the report said.
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My Comment: It's all about the money .... and a lot of it at that.