[bmiranda]

What should the US do than? Spend our tax dollars on foreign handouts?

If US companies want to invest in SE Asia there is nothing stopping them.

[grewergrfefg]

I don't have an answer for you. But, I'd rather spend tax dollars building railroads in SE Asia than blowing up the Middle East. #Iraq2Trillion #neverforget

[the-dude]

Dude, it is not 2 trillion by a long shot.

It is 268k ( https://www.iraqbodycount.org/ )

[nappy]

I believe he's referring to the economic cost being $2 trillion, not the death count.

[knowaveragejoe]

Did you really think he was talking about the body count?(Have 2 trillion people even ever lived...?) He's clearly talking about the projected cost of that war.

[the-dude]

#neverforget

[tacomonstrous]

Dollars not deaths.

[clio]

If we count trees as people, there is no difference

[droopyEyelids]

Right now we're using the tools of taxation and legislation to transfer our country's wealth to 'elites' - mainly through taxation for 'defense' spending, patent law legislation, and finance.

Those choices are not obviously the ones that will have the most beneifical long term impact on our country's power.