A Cost-Benefit prognosis on the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

Should we withdraw from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? In order to sass that question, we need to reconsider the current status of both of these wars.

These wars have cost 6,000 U.S. Lives, along with 5,200 from our military, and 800 civilians. There have been someone else 10,500 deaths among Iraqi soldiers and other Coalition forces. Nobody knows the amount of Iraqi civilians who have been killed, but some estimates are as high as 600,000. Also, we have had some 34,000 severely wounded among the U.S. Military, and someone else 6,000 for other coalition forces.

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U.S. Taxpayers have spend nearly trillion on these wars. It costs 0,000 to deploy each U.S. Soldier for one year in Iraq. This adds to the mounting deficit due to the Obama administration's spending, and this is all occurring while a worldwide recession.

Some estimates indicate that up to 2.5 million people have been displaced from their homes. Inflation in Iraq is 50%, unemployment is 60%, and 28% of Iraqi children are suffering from persisting malnutrition. Only 37% of Iraqi homes are associated to a sewer system, only 30% have enough entrance to water. The worst thing is that all of these statistics have come to be much worse since the wars started.

Most people, along with both Americans and Iraqis, are strongly opposed to the presence of coalition troops. Iraqis have exiguous confidence in them; they don't believe that they are improving security; and, they feel less gain because of our occupation.

If our efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan have averted any terrorist attacks, we can't genuinely see any evidence of it. Even if this is the case, it has come at a high cost. Couldn't we have made the same advance in this regard without these wars? Unfortunately, one can draw a sad analogy from these mismanaged wars. We retaliated for the 3,000 deaths on 9/11 by adding someone else 6,000 deaths of our own countrymen, and some 600,000 of our allies. Also the mismanagement of these wars, our brain has proven to be so poor that we can't find Bin Ladin, even with our classic technology.

As each day passes with more U.S. Forces deaths, this situation is genuinely becoming someone else Vietnam. We are selecting to continue the loss of life instead of decisively winning the wars. We are too involved about being political spoton about causing civilian casualties. It appears that we would rather lose our own soldiers than Iraqi civilians.

We suffered 58,000 deaths in Vietnam, but we've now lost 6,000 in Iraq and Afghanistan, plus an further 10,000 coalition forces. In addition, we've seen 34,000 severely wounded, which totals some 50,000 casualties. This is genuinely beginning to look like someone else Vietnam. We've been in Afghanistan for nine years now, while we were in Vietnam for 16 years. Just like Vietnam, we claim to be winning because we've killed more of the enemy than what they've killed of us. The proponents of the war claim that we're winning, since the death toll for our enemy is 55,000. Just as with Vietnam, this is probably a more convincing seminar for those who have none of their house members included in these numbers. Also just like Vietnam, whenever we leave, either now or in ten years, the country will fall back into a state of chaos among rival factions. In Vietnam it was Communism, and here it will be insurgents.

Yes, since we're not considered for a quick victory, we need to just cut our losses and get out.

A Cost-Benefit prognosis on the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

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