Sam Stein reports on Huff Post, "From 9/11 To Osama Bin Laden's Death, Congress Spent $1.28 Trillion In War On Terror."
It is almost incalculable when you add it all up. The website of The Institute for Analysis of Global Security lists the costs in part:
" The destruction of major buildings in the World Trade Center with a replacement cost of from $3 billion to $4.5 billion.
" Damage to a portion of the Pentagon: up to $1 billion.
" Cleanup costs: $1.3 billion.
" Property and infrastructure damage: $10 billion to $13 billion.
" Federal emergency funds (heightened airport security, sky marshals, government takeover of airport security, retrofitting aircraft with anti-terrorist devices, cost of operations in Afghanistan): $40 billion.
" Direct job losses amounted to 83,000, with $17 billion in lost wages.
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