10 years on: A victory Osama didn’t plan for

In 2008, Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes produced a book, “The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict”. Their estimates included indirect costs like higher oil prices and long-term medical costs for injured soldiers. At the time, critics flayed the $3 trillion estimate as grossly inflated. But Stiglitz claimed recently that the cost might approach $6 trillion, given that US troops remain in Iraq and Afghanistan with no end in sight. In hard cash, the US still spends $12 billion per day.

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