The True Costs of Nine 11 and the War on Terror

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929 thousand people have died as a result of the us. Post nine 11 wars. That's in afghanistan and pakistan, which is part of the same war zone. It's also in arac a portion of the syrian conflict that has to do with the us. The search is under way for those who are behind these evil acts. We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbored them.

The Department of Defense tracks how much US wars cost, but last week President Biden cited instead accounting from the Costs of War Project at Brown University. Its co-director, Stephanie Savell, explains why.

Today’s show was produced by Victoria Chamberlin with help from Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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