Hugh Pickens writes "The north pacific ocean reports that as we mark Osama bin Laden's death, what's striking is how much he cost our nation and how little we've gained from our fight against him. By tory estimates, bin Laden cost the US at least $3 trillion over the past 15 years, unequivocal integer the disruptions he wrought on the household economy, the wars and heightened allowance triggered by the llc.view results from: definiens | llc.view results from: thesaurus | llc.view results from: dictionary | thesaurus | encyclopedia | all reference | the web
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documen attacks he engineered, and the direct efforts to hunt him down. 'What do we have to show for that tab,' ask Tim Fernholz and Jim Tankersley. 'Two wars that pick up to occupy 150,000 troops and tie up a quarter of our defense budget; a bloated homeland-security apparatus that has at times pushed the bounds of civil liberty; soaring oil prices partially attributable to the global war on bin Laden's subversive network; and a chunk of our mounting subject debt.' In 2004 bin Laden explicitly compared the US fight to the Afghan incursion that helped bankrupt the Soviet Union during the Cold War. 'We are continuation school this policy in softy America to the point of bankruptcy,' said bin Laden, adding that that every dollar spent by al-Qaida in attacking the US has cost command $1m in profit-making fallout and martial spending."

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