Your last line in the above essay is 100% on the money. Trump is obviously a complete basket case who lacks a moral compass, is dangerously ignorant and who appears to be suffering from early onset of dementia.
The best way to determine the actual cumulative cost before inflation of the so-callied War on Terror since 9/11 is to combine the total Federal budget expenditures for Defense, intelligence, Veterans' Affairs, and national security costs allocated to the Justice and Energy Departments for the fiscal year ended 10/31/01 and calculate this figure as a percentage of U.S. GDP in 2001. The next step would be to apply this percentage figure to actual U.s. GDP for every year since 9/11 and combine these figures. The result would be what the U.S. would have spent on national security if 9/11 had never occurred. Lastly, you would total all of the actual Federal budget expenditures for the above Departments since 9/11. The difference between the latter figure and the cumulative figure of what would have been spent without 9/11 is the actual cumulative cost of the senseless War on Terror. I would bet the figure is around $7 trillion and this is without adding on guesses about future veteran's costs and inferred interest costs tied to the additions to national debt stemming from these national security costs. The final financial cost to the U.S. economy could then be inflation adjusted.
Your last line in the above essay is 100% on the money. Trump is obviously a complete basket case who lacks a moral compass, is dangerously ignorant and who appears to be suffering from early onset of dementia.
The best way to determine the actual cumulative cost before inflation of the so-callied War on Terror since 9/11 is to combine the total Federal budget expenditures for Defense, intelligence, Veterans' Affairs, and national security costs allocated to the Justice and Energy Departments for the fiscal year ended 10/31/01 and calculate this figure as a percentage of U.S. GDP in 2001. The next step would be to apply this percentage figure to actual U.s. GDP for every year since 9/11 and combine these figures. The result would be what the U.S. would have spent on national security if 9/11 had never occurred. Lastly, you would total all of the actual Federal budget expenditures for the above Departments since 9/11. The difference between the latter figure and the cumulative figure of what would have been spent without 9/11 is the actual cumulative cost of the senseless War on Terror. I would bet the figure is around $7 trillion and this is without adding on guesses about future veteran's costs and inferred interest costs tied to the additions to national debt stemming from these national security costs. The final financial cost to the U.S. economy could then be inflation adjusted.