<story><title>The US has spent $1.5 trillion on war since Sept 11 attacks</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/10/the-us-has-spent-1point5-trillion-on-war-since-september-11-attacks.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>desdiv</author><text>&amp;quot;All that we have to do is to send two Mujahedin to the farthest point East to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al-Qa&amp;#x27;ida in order to make the generals race there to cause America to suffer human economic and political losses without their achieving for it anything of note other than some benefits to their private companies. This is in addition to our having experience in using guerrilla warfare and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical superpowers as we alongside the Mujahedin bled Russia for 10 years until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat. All Praise is due to Allah.&lt;p&gt;So we are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy.&amp;quot;[0]&lt;p&gt;-Osama bin Laden&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;wp-dyn&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;A16990-2004Nov1.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;wp-dyn&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;A16990-2004Nov...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>athenot</author><text>It makes me sad that over a decade later, we still fall for that trap.&lt;p&gt;My rule of thumb to explain things is &amp;quot;follow the money&amp;quot;. Several industries have handsomly profited over this situation, but don&amp;#x27;t believe anybody else gained from that: not us Americans as a whole, certainly not those who had to deal with war in their own place.</text></comment>
<story><title>The US has spent $1.5 trillion on war since Sept 11 attacks</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/10/the-us-has-spent-1point5-trillion-on-war-since-september-11-attacks.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>desdiv</author><text>&amp;quot;All that we have to do is to send two Mujahedin to the farthest point East to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al-Qa&amp;#x27;ida in order to make the generals race there to cause America to suffer human economic and political losses without their achieving for it anything of note other than some benefits to their private companies. This is in addition to our having experience in using guerrilla warfare and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical superpowers as we alongside the Mujahedin bled Russia for 10 years until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat. All Praise is due to Allah.&lt;p&gt;So we are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy.&amp;quot;[0]&lt;p&gt;-Osama bin Laden&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;wp-dyn&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;A16990-2004Nov1.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;wp-dyn&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;A16990-2004Nov...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>almost_usual</author><text>I’m skeptical Russia’s financial woes were solely caused by this strategy.</text></comment>