It's amazing how America does not learn lessons. The only thing we learn from history is that we don't learn from history. As this article that appeared on antiwar.com indicates, we've now paid $700 billion on Iraq and Afghanistan, more than was spent on Vietnam.
When President Lyndon Johnson poured billions into his "Great Society" and Vietnam at the same time (known as "guns and butter") he broke us. The '70's was a lackluster decade highlighted by stagflation and eventually very high inflation.
Won't we ever learn? 300 million people (4% of the world's population) trying to run the other 6 billion (96%). Who's paying for it? You and me.
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