Tuesday May 17, 2011
The Price of Freedom:
Tackling Bin Laden Cost US $3 Trillion
The death of Osama Bin Laden has focused some minds in the US on the true cost of dealing with the consequences of his actions.
Conservative estimates indicate that the fight against Bin Laden ended up costing $3 trillion.
From The Atlantic:
As we mark Osama bin Laden's death, what's striking is how much he cost our nation--and how little we've gained from our fight against him. By conservative estimates, bin Laden cost the United States at least $3 trillion over the past 15 years, counting the disruptions he wrought on the domestic economy, the wars and heightened security triggered by the terrorist attacks he engineered, and the direct efforts to hunt him down.
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