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it doesn't strike me as odd that 1% is less than 13%. We have a lot more money now. WWI had 116k deaths. Vietnam had 58k deaths. Post 9/11 wars have had about
by clarky07 11y ago
it doesn't strike me as odd that 1% is less than 13%. We have a lot more money now.
WWI had 116k deaths. Vietnam had 58k deaths. Post 9/11 wars have had about 6500.
All of them are tragic, but the fact that we spent a similar amount of inflation adjusted money is not really that important.
1. the human loss of life isn't remotely comparable.
2. as a % of GDP, it's still significantly less.
I think it would be hard to grow up during WWI and not notice. I've been an adult for most of the post 9/11 wars, and it's only had a small effect on my life as I've had close friends who have gone to Iraq and Afghanistan (and thankfully returned). If not for those few friends, it would have had almost no effect on me.