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$5 trillion USD on war on terror, and the world is not safer than before. with $5 trillion you could buy Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook etc.



Like most government "wars" on a problem it has turned out to be an expensive effort to make the problem worse. I agree with the theory that this is by design; if a government program actually solved a problem then the funding goes away.




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