Price Tags of War
Anchor Lisa Mullins talks to Neta Crawford, co-director of a new report called “Costs of War.” The study, which comes from Brown University’s Watson Institute of International Studies, estimates that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have costed the United States between $2.3 to $2.6 trillion so far; and that is not counting another trillion dollars in obligations to veterans during the next 40 years.
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