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Cost Of "War" With ISIS Hits $9.2 Million Per Day
While the US waits patiently for just the right time and/or excuse to “intervene” in Syria’s bloody civil war (which continues to claim lives even as the conflict’s outcome is preordained) the American taxpayer is paying a hefty price to support the “battle” against the CIA’s “strategic asset” gone rogue.
And while the cost will only grow once Washington determines boots on the ground forward spotters are necessary to increase the accuracy and efficiency of the “coalition” air campaign, the DoD was kind enough to produce a few handy infographics which detail the current cost associated with countering ISIS’ decision to abandon its Assad usurpation directive in favor of establishing a medieval Islamic caliphate.
The damage: about $9.2 million per day or around $3 billion in total, meaning the US could have created around 67,000 average jobs with the money it's spent fighting the group.
And here is a breakdown of what the DoD says has been destroyed so far:
Source: DoD
It wasn't immediately clear how many of the humvees and tanks destroyed with US taxpayer dollars were also built with US taxpayer dollars, but we suppose it doesn't really matter because after all, as long as the weapons sales generated by Washington's foreign policy debacles provide enough of a GDP boost to offset the cash burn, all's well that ends in a horrific proxy war.
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the CIA’s “strategic asset” gone rogue
Who says they went rogue?
The reason why Obama and his accomplices want to discontinue the A-10 "Warthog" ground attack jet is because it is ideally suited to attack ground forces in a desert environment. The Saudis complain to Obama that their plans to turn much of the Middle East into a "sharia" zone are being delayed by the A-10's fearsome effect on jihadists, so Obama listens to his organ grinders and is moving heaven and earth to ground the Warthogs permanently. How do you spell T-R-E-A-S-O-N?
It must have cost that much to chase those two half starved idiots around the Adirondacks,
until they were shot in the back.
That's very little money on the scale of things like the F35.
The Pentagon is paying'rebels' in Syria $200-400 per month. Not a lot of money in the west, but a reasonable sum in that part of the world.
http://off-guardian.org/2015/07/02/us-admits-paying-terrorists-for-servi...
Set to replace all the superior aircraft the US military already has in opperation.
Cronyism for the loss [of the nation].
What's that, a nickel per American per day? Is Sally Struthers running this thing?
I could create a shit-pot of decent jobs here in the US with $9.2 million/day.
@junction -
you are more correct than you know, Sir.
Very cost-effective anti armor and anti personnel bird.
Cant have that, now can we?
Also has high battlefield survivability and has armored protection for the pilot. Easily serviced in the field. Popular with ground support troops.
Things take damage akin to the B-17 in it's day.
Does that $9.2 million include their payroll?
We pay them over there, so we can fight them over there.
All part of the plan.
1) Animate the muslim golem. Give it a name like Al Qaeda or ISIS. Let them self-indoctrinate with the Koran's violent ideology regarding apostates and unbelievers.
2) Pit the golem against secular regimes.
3) Make money selling arms to both sides.
4) Send American soldiers over there to fight, get killed, get maimed, and (most importantly), get demoralized.
5) Create legions of muslim refugees that burst out of the middle east like pus from an open wound, and import those refugees into western Europe and the US in order to spread the muslim infection.
6) Muslim infection takes hold in western society, undermining western values and culture and creating mayhem.
7) Implement a police state to "control" the muslim infection.
8) Since you can't "police" a violent ideology, the "policing" strategy naturally "fails", allowing it to be ratcheted up.
9) As the indigenous western population begins to revolt against both the muslim invaders AND the burgeoning police state, use the police state to target the indigenous western population (which of course was the plan in the first place).
10) Allow muslims to run wild, creating more mayhem and further demoralizing the indigenous population. Give them favored legal and cultural treatment to foster their growth and increase the damage they inflict.
11) Crush all dissent while making huge profits on arms, police, prisons, and raising taxes, thus further empoverishing the indigenous population while breaking their spirit.
Sounds familar, I wonder which country in the past has done this...
right on Buckaroo Banzai. Where are the pictures of fighting? Is this thing really happening? I have viewed more pictures of the moon landing this past week, than the last six months of Syria. What are they hiding.
This is really fucking demoralizing when it's called out like this.
I see the US as currently pushing into step 8.
Logged in to give you +1000 for your perfect summery of the UK today
Sounds like a Zionist plan, doesn't it?
http://www.counterpunch.org/2006/04/25/is-the-us-waging-israel-s-wars/
if the koran has a violent ideology just because the text espouses violence, what would you say about the Torah?
Wold you say the same, or would you find some way to not indict an entire group of people when we're not talking Mooooslims.
Just askin'
then what? every program needs a 12th step.........
I think they are talking about rogue inflation in this case. It costs a fortune to setup green screens and hire actors. If they are looking for more money, give them nothing and tell them to tighten their belt with everyone else. Too bad for Israel, they can uncategorically go fuck themselves.
That's right.
How about an article on the cost to the US to create & sustain ISIS.
War with ISIS... as oppose to against.
they're burning up our precious poppy fields!
Back in February, Obama, Pentagon and especially CNN were advertising a huge campaign to retake Mosul from ISIS and that it was planned for mid-April or early May, whatever. First, who the hell announces months in advance a specific military scheme. Ludicrous on the face of it. Of course, no such campaign ever took place nor was it ever going to. CNN just blathered it out uncritically and often for a couple of weeks. Lots of "reports" and interviews with "insiders". Just the concept was absurd -- it's a city of two or three million people. Were they going to "Dresden" it?
I'm sure the other fake news channels did the same it's just that I have to watch CNN in some public places.
Mosul is important. Mostly to the U.S., Brits and Israel. The Kurds, Sunni and Shia? Not so much that they want to die for the northern end of someone else's oil pipeline. Baghdad would like to own it again, but has absolutely no will to retake it or plans to keep it. They won't give the native Sunni training, arms (or even pay) so it will always be vulnerable no matter when they 'liberate' it. The U.S. fake al-Qaeda or fake ISIS will just drive right back in whenever they fill the Mosul bank with gold again.
The Kurds would go for it, but it was only ever about a quarter Kurdish. It's not part of Iraqi Kurdistan territory and it's full of Sunni, many of whom are not exactly enemies with ISIS. The Shia militia's only interest is to kick some ISIS ass, but they're not going to engage in a costly months- (maybe years-) long war of attrition to take Mosul back block by block. Even if the Shia militias did commit to take back Mosul, they're basically doing it for the mostly Sunni refugees to return. The Iraqi Army itself still sucks, has no equipment, no leaders, few Sunni and would pretty much just be in everyone's way (just like the U.S. planned - useless).
The MSM was cheerleading 'the liberation of Mosul' because their handlers in the U.S. government were telling them to be. Mostly for the benefit of Israel and some U.S. and British oil companies. All the Iraqis laughed when they heard the April-May newz.
Nope - the U.S., Israel and the Brits are completely fucked with Mosul. Nobody else wants to die for their Mosul - Haifa pipeline, so U.S. taxpayers are going to have to hire a CRAPLOAD of Xe/Academi mercs. Since most of them are U.S. or Brit Iraqi vets, they're already experienced in sacrificing themselves and their brothers for the Blood-for-Oil pipeline.
whatever happened to Al-CIA-duh, did they merge? maybe I missed that... hope it was accretive for shareholders (US tax payers)
"They've merged with the Jewish Caliphate. Whoever coughs up the most dollars wins...
What pisses me off is how no News agency/website/TV channel ever ties together our 15+ year war in the Middle East and the rise of ISIS and the copycats who join them in the West.
You can't attack people for 15 years and expect them to lie down and take it. I wouldn't.
The cost of fighting them is actually quit reasonable. The cost of supplying them though is another matter.
Vichy DC is becoming Stoopider by ze day.
Hands up anyone who can understand the Arab Psyche?
Short or low down ass McCain is a Clown and these Al Nusrah loons are laughing at him all the way to the bank.
Looks like a Keynesian wet dream. Build humvee, blow up humvee, rinse & repeat.
500,000 have in fact been built.
"The used one still costs 100,000 DOLARES...
The Hum Vee is the "Space Shuttle" of Jeeps .... the Toyotas we give ISIS cost $25,000 each ($500 K /$25 K = 20 to 1 kill ratio) ! edit: oops. over 500 K served ?
America pissing away money on its own creations:
ISIS: The jihadist movement stamped “Made in America”
The fact remains, however, that the US, the major European powers, and their regional allies all previously lent financial, military and political support to ISIS and similar groups, which have “Made in the USA” stamped all over them. They have, until now, played a significant part in Washington’s efforts to overthrow the regime of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, as part of a broader effort to gain control of the region’s vast energy resources and transit routes.For three years, the US, along with the Gulf states and Turkey, poured billions into “opposition” groups, supposedly to unnamed “moderates,” but in reality to Al Qaeda-linked Sunni groups such as al-Nusra and ISIS to spearhead a sectarian war. The US, Turkey and Jordan have operated a base in Jordan where US instructors trained dozens of ISIS members. In an article last year, the New York Times confirmed that the CIA assisted Arab governments and Turkey by airlifting weaponry to these groups in Jordan and Turkey. The Guardian reported last March that British and French instructors were also involved.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/07/30/isis-j30.html
The battle against ISIS and the battle for ISIS. All in the same budget.
Just another beautiful day in the United State of Endless Permawar...
Sure does have the feel of British Imperial War Days sadly...
I wonder whether those listed expenses include the cost of the munitions aparently going directly to ISIS. See http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/07/01/exclusive-israeli-general-chechn...
"War with ISIS".... Freudian slip .... Tyler stumbles into the truth .... we should be "against" ISIS !
How bout this one: "0 Toyota trucks destroyed"
Are they seriously trying to make it look like they are really trying to defeat ISIS over there? Israel won't even mention ISIS as a serious enemy in the region! I mean, c'mon guys, if the masses are to be led effectively, you've gotta try a little harder than that! With all the guns, roids, and good old boys over there, you can't find anybody to actually fight? That War on Terror sure is a funny one!
But fighting ISIS does provide thousands of average jobs at Nothrop Grumman, GE, Boeing, General Dynamics, etc. If peace broke out the US economy would collapse overnight.
Why call it "cost" when you could just as easily call it "profit"?
Tragedy of the useful idiots.
"Either they do something here this weekend or I'm calling bullshit on the whole thing... "
overheard in DC
That ISIS has enjoyed state or states support should have been obvious to any reasonable intelligent person, and its a matter of some speculation how much is the US v. Israelis v. Saudis. Certainly the US, Turks, Saudis, and Israelis have been assisting Al Nusra, a big chunk of which went over to ISIS... both are essentially proxies, with Nusra having had at least some kind of Syrian-centric command.
You can speculate about Saudi involvement and that doesn't trigger the hasbara-siren that speculating about Likud/Israeli support, but its seems obvious that Israel benefits from everything ISIS has been doing, and as repeatedly noted here, is benefitting in ways called for by Zionists/Likudniks for decades.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-07-01/short-history-neocon-clean-brea...
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=western_support_for_islam...
https://web.archive.org/web/20111125032004/http://www.zimoz.co.uk/news/e...
"Cost Of "War" With ISIS Hits $9.2 Million Per Day"
ISIS are fussy and want the latest expensive armaments. Uncle Sam provides them and then destroys them by bombing.
Rinse & Repeat. MIC are doing very nicely thankyou.
$9.2 Mil per day. I call bullshit! Does anybody remember Sept. 10, 2001? If not, take a look. Black money.
Rumsfeld says $2.3 Tril missing. That 9.2 bullshit is just to make you feel better w/your IRS assraping.
http://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrTcdoSs5VV67oACAUPxQt.;_ylu=X3oDMTE0bzV...
http://www.globalresearch.ca/u-s-general-we-helped-build-isis-islamic-st...
Iranian Special Forces Commander: ‘Obama Has Not Done a Damn Thing’ to Fight ISIS:
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/05/25/iranian-special-fo...
Why would the Puppet in chief endanger the Deep State's bestest golem??
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem
I can understand why people use the term Luciferian to describe these warmongering sociopaths.
$9.2 million a day? That's nothin compared to what we are getting for it. We're pissing a lot of people off that we don't like anyway, which is good, don't you think? We're killing a whole lot of people we didn't need anyway, and we're creating a lot of jobs for people to do it. Just wait until we get in a real war! That experience will come in handy! It's like investing in the future.
/Sarcasm
" The American taxpayer is paying a hefty price to support the “battle” against the CIA’s “strategic asset” gone rogue"
+1,000 That was beautifully put! All evidence suggests that the CIA proxy war on Syria, was the KEY factor in the rise of ISIS.
American support and training camps for radical islamists who promised to fight Assad's Syrian government, has morphed into an "Insane Clown Posse" of the world's worst Islamic Jihad terrorists. These same ones recruited, armed and trained by Washington. In Jordan and Turkey, NATO trained Jihadists for over 3 years! Once the CIA's anti Assad Army was cut loose in the Middle East, they expanded everywhere in an instant. Now Saudi money flows to keep them active and growing. The EU supplies thousands of Islamic Fighters, while NATO made Libya safe for a super large ISIS base of operations.
Let's just come out and say it, ISIS is the CIA. ISIS is Mossad. One hand of American intelligence feels fit to create a giant terror army that the US government them claims the need to fight.
We are deep, deep into Orwellian doublespeak, double think, and government suppression of all humanity.
Who to blame for this?
1. US and Israeli Zionists.
2. US Corporate media and their investments in Military production companies.
3. Christian Zionism. Without this, America would revolt against Israeli rule.
4. The good old Military Industrial Complex. They profit greatly form any "permanent war scenario".
ISIS came seemingly form nowhere. This is absolute proof that ISIS really was the US Anti Assad Army trained to destroy Syria. But now gone out on their own to wage Jihad. How muck does CIA still support ISIS? Unknown, but CIA still supports their so called Moderate Syrian Opposition Army. The very foundation of modern ISIS.
One thing you seem to have forgotten is that we have *alays* been at war with ISIS.
Best you learn that real good, sailor.
Aye, Aye, chief!
double tap.
hate to copy and paste, but this sums it up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyY7a75dl7c
I'd love to believe it went "rogue" given the inability of government employees to do anything right, let alone display the cognitive power needed to see beyond the next paycheck, but the logistics and the failure to neutralize said logistics, are explained only by U.S. backing.
Another cost of supporting the fucking jews.
No wonder there is a disruption in the reality universe.
isis has the support and logistics of someone. who can field an army without supplies, who is shipping to them and through what country? do they shop at dollar general? food fuel tires clothing come from somewhere. the fucking U S can't look up the purchase order because it is placed by the U S government. or some funtionary of the government. do we not have laws against aiding terror. I think they should put themselves in gauntanimo
isis has the support and logistics of someone. who can field an army without supplies, who is shipping to them and through what country? do they shop at dollar general? food fuel tires clothing come from somewhere. the fucking U S can't look up the purchase order because it is placed by the U S government. or some funtionary of the government. do we not have laws against aiding terror. I think they should put themselves in gauntanimo
How soon everyone forgets.
Super progressive hero Hillary Clinton armed "rebels" in Libya and Syria that grew into ISIS. Directly aided and abetted enemies of the United States
https://youtu.be/WPHcE96PIaI
https://youtu.be/sNeqBw4xDc4
Go back and look, it is all there. Remember when the progressive messiah obozo said that Syria's "continuing support for terrorist organizations and pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and missile programmes, continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States". ?????
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2010/05/20105455424403270.html
Lay the blame where the blame is due. Progressives own this shit. You didn't hear constitutional conservatives calling for intervention in sovereign nations affairs did you? That would be no.
Embrace the progressive criminal suck and don't forget, the progressive stupid, not only does it burn but it kills millions.
Grimaldus
9.2 millions stolem per day? thats not that much
soon it will be 90mil a day
This is pure madness.
These Vichy DC Neocons have MURDERED Sovereign leaders after accusing them of sponsoring State Terrorism and in doing so created failed lawless States with all the misery ordinary folks now endure day in and day out.
Crimes against Humanity.
Before we descend into total chaos the main perpetrators must be brought before the International War Crimes Tribunal.
What do you mean THEY are the Tribunal?
This is becoming a joke. Demented individuals in black costumes and running shoes on Toyota pickup trucks in a desert environment cannot be defeated!.Their God must really be on their side .They must be the new chosen ones.
Take that $9.2million/day out of the CIA budget to battle ISIS.. that is what would happen to anyone else in court, before punitive ...
Cost of fighting or funding?
Good for American cabal banksters
Defence expenditure up.
Money trickling down.
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And Zionist happy & salivating for the oil fields to be grabbed