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Originally Posted by SentraSE-R
...and to pay for the costs of the continual cost of the undeclared wars we foment and participate in.
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(Sigh) Politics again :-( Ought to be obvious to anyone who's bothered to learn a bit about world history (which unfortunately seems to rule out upwards of 90% of the American public) that the US didn't foment the current war, and couldn't have, since it was going on in one form or another for over a thousand years before the US was founded. Participation, in one form or another (and I'm not claiming the current participation is anywhere near optimal) was forced on the US by a long series of unprovoked attacks.
Nor has most of the money been spent on anything resembling actual war. It's gone for "democracy building", payoffs to local warlords &c, with a healthy slice diverted into the pockets of politically-connected contractors.