Everyone in America Could Go to College for Free for the Amount of Money Spent on Mideast Wars

[xchrom]

http://www.alternet.org/everyone-america-could-go-college-free-amount-money-spent-mideast-wars

The United States is just three weeks into the latest phase of its effort in Iraq against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria—the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria militant group—but already there are calls for it to escalate.

This past Sunday on CNN, Senator John McCain (R-Ala.) advocated for a greater number of U.S. ground troops to get directly involved in fighting the group. ISIS is “winning, we’re not,” McCain complained. McCain is not alone. His sentiments have been echoed by others in Congress and among key American allies around the world such as the United Kingdom and Turkey.

The problem is that the unfinished business in Iraq and Afghanistan shows us that scaling up the military campaign against ISIS will create severe costs that won’t be shouldered equally by all Americans. Sadly this fact is lost on many involved in the debate.

Before launching headlong into a third Iraq War it’s important to step back and review the costs of the past 13 years of combat. Not surprisingly, the sacrifice of war, monetary and otherwise are disproportionately borne by people of color and the young.

[SamKnause]

1. Did the Pentagon

ever find the 2.3 TRILLION DOLLARS that was unaccounted for ???

Donald Rumsfeld announced at a press conference the day before 9/11 that the Pentagon could not account for 2.3 TRILLION DOLLARS.

Have the missing funds been accounted for ???

Does anyone have any updates on the 2.3 TRILLION DOLLARS ?????

The U.S. taxpayers are being robbed blind by Wall Street, the Pentagon, and a tax system that favors the rich and corporations.

[Enthusiast]

2. K&R! This post should have hundreds of recommendations!

Perpetual war is no way to run a country.

[belzabubba333]

3. better yet use the money to get off oil. set up an infrastructure for renewable fuel use

and bug-out of the entire area

[theHandpuppet]

4. unhappycamper laid out the shameful facts in this thread....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1118412

This is insanity. We have millions who are hungry and homeless, millions more without access to higher education, a crumbling infrastructure et al and this is how the government spends our tax money?

[DirkGently]

5. And we'd actually get something out of that. N/t

[logosoco]

6. Educated people! Less death and descruction! Less profits for the rich!

Sounds like a win to me. Unfortunately I am not one at the top making these decisions and, in fact, my opinion doesn't count for shit!

[Half-Century Man]

7. Xchrom, you do realize an educated America means the whithering death of the republican party.

What are we waiting for?

[Cryptoad]

8. But,, But,,, But

the American Military Banksters would not have all that money in their off shore accounts.

[TerrapinFlyer]

9. Free Education!

Start saying it aloud!

[warrant46]

10. Just Disgusting

And meanwhile the WAR goes on.

Looks like we are more INTERESTED in preventing guys riding camels from attacking the Lion Club Friday Bean Feed Dinner in Dubuque, Iowa.

[PatrickforO]

11. YES YES YES YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But that's not the priority of the military-industrial complex.

[nationalize the fed]

12. ^ Harvard and MIT have set up a working model

free online .edu right now

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[liberal_at_heart]

13. K&R