Thursday, August 25, 2011
(graphic-Door: Stop International)
By war-on-terror standards, the U.S. involvement in Libya was a real bargain, according to new figures released by the Department of Defense.
After months of helping rebels take down Muammar Gaddafi, the U.S. has wound up paying just under $900 million.
That’s how much the U.S. spends in just three days fighting the Afghanistan war. In fact it’s less than U.S. taxpayers spend for 17 days’ worth of air-conditioning for American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The Obama administration has requested $107 billion pay for the Afghanistan campaign in the coming fiscal year. That comes out to about $293 million a day.
And the overall expense of fighting both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars has been estimated to be $1.3 trillion.
-Noel Brinkerhoff
Libya War Costs for U.S.: $896 Million So Far (by Jason Ukman, Washington Post)
Entire Cost of U.S. Military Action in Libya = 4 Days of Afghanistan War (by Noel Brinkerhoff, AllGov)
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