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The Cost Of War as per Watson Institute of International Studies of Brown University could far outweigh the benefit of control for United States which has opened up at least four fronts in the middle east and Asia since the last decade. As per Reuters the cost in Afghanistan alone exceeds $ 2.3 trillion and the total cost of engagement in the middle east is $3.7 trillion,much higher than the $1 trillion officially admitted by the Obama administration. Despite this there are unique straits in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Libya that makes them wars, that almost certainly cannot be completely won by the US. Nor is there any guarantee that a victory of sorts will lead to any sort of stable regime that will be distinctly pro- American in these large and volatile moslem nations .
The war bill of US and the NATO nations go on increasing like an ever enlarging puddle that draws in anyone who dares to enter the soak pit. And so does debt. Supporters of the 'dominate by force theory' who say that the war was brought about by the bombing of the twin towers forget that the Afghan wars of the nineties preceded them all. It was that decade long war with Russian army that produced figures like Mullah Omar and Osama Bin Laden and a generation of battle hardened trained and well armed militants, that was used by the US against the Soviet regime. These are the men who finally took the war across the Atlantic and are today at the forefront of the hard line Islamic movement, few of whom became the face of global terrorism .
Today the Western alliance is deep in the puddle unable to extract itself from both war and debt. All they are doing is throwing the can further down the road, hoping that something will happen that will show a way out of the imbroglio. This may ultimately result in a large scale global political and economic upheavals that will start with institutional failures and result in price rise and chaos and turbulence. The political unrest of the Arab revolt may catch up and influence the social unrest of an troubled European Union and there is every chance that the puddle will spread and ultimately lead to bigger wars across the globe.
The Cost Of War as per Watson Institute of International Studies of Brown University could far outweigh the benefit of control for United States which has opened up at least four fronts in the middle east and Asia since the last decade. As per Reuters the cost in Afghanistan alone exceeds $ 2.3 trillion and the total cost of engagement in the middle east is $3.7 trillion,much higher than the $1 trillion officially admitted by the Obama administration. Despite this there are unique straits in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Libya that makes them wars, that almost certainly cannot be completely won by the US. Nor is there any guarantee that a victory of sorts will lead to any sort of stable regime that will be distinctly pro- American in these large and volatile moslem nations .
The war bill of US and the NATO nations go on increasing like an ever enlarging puddle that draws in anyone who dares to enter the soak pit. And so does debt. Supporters of the 'dominate by force theory' who say that the war was brought about by the bombing of the twin towers forget that the Afghan wars of the nineties preceded them all. It was that decade long war with Russian army that produced figures like Mullah Omar and Osama Bin Laden and a generation of battle hardened trained and well armed militants, that was used by the US against the Soviet regime. These are the men who finally took the war across the Atlantic and are today at the forefront of the hard line Islamic movement, few of whom became the face of global terrorism .
Today the Western alliance is deep in the puddle unable to extract itself from both war and debt. All they are doing is throwing the can further down the road, hoping that something will happen that will show a way out of the imbroglio. This may ultimately result in a large scale global political and economic upheavals that will start with institutional failures and result in price rise and chaos and turbulence. The political unrest of the Arab revolt may catch up and influence the social unrest of an troubled European Union and there is every chance that the puddle will spread and ultimately lead to bigger wars across the globe.
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