The Iconoclast: What have U.S.citizens gotten from their investment in Iraq and Afghanistan?

The $53 billion allocated for rebuilding Iraq, plus the missing $9.1 billion, are nowhere near the total cost of the Iraqi and Afghan wars, which is now into the trillions of dollars.

The entire Apollo space program cost a pittance in comparison, and for that money, U.S. citizens got the Cold-War prestige of getting to the moon before the Soviets, much scientific knowledge about the origin of our solar system, and most importantly, many technological innovations that have improved our lives.

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