Masquerading as patriotism. Well and start watching the whole. Thing. But thats like. The bottom if you. Like you know that i got. This. So. Well the watching the hawks i am told this for you guys have a lot less. War crimes you know it seems that we got so used after post World War Two you know we had nuremberg so we kind of it seems strange that now Going Forward we havent had that postmortem of of wars and conflicts i think the problem with that was a wars and conflicts for some reason in this day and age what we know the reasons dont actually and. Thats the big thing is that like when you look at the conflicts in the twentieth and twenty First Century sure afghanistan iraq you know they dont have an ending theres no set ending you know george got on the Aircraft Carrier Mission Accomplished but the war dragged on for how much longer i grew up on a golf. And thats the way out something with as a seventeen years going theres no exit strategy theres nothing like that so you cant have
What are the numbers that we are spending in the middle east well it its been at least seven trillion dollars six trillion dollars in iraq when you consider the out years alone for your veterans for your for the handicapped for dealing with families and this is for out to ten years that that some hasnt even been figured in yet that doesnt include afghanistan and afghanistan the still a slippery slope so seven trillion isnt even enough in our view no no not when you consider the out years because we would probably have already spent about two trillion in afghanistan weve been at it for sixteen years now hes increasing troop levels that means more supplies more more training plus you gotta. Keep that government float in afghanistan otherwise u. S. Influence in that area wanes so you mentioned supplies and Training Need seven trillion plus as you say over and over about another ten years ok remember the Everett Dirksen quote right i mean sooner or later youre talking about real money soun
I found of mine on the streets near my house my friend and i tried to detonate it from a distance but it didnt go off we thought the mind didnt work and work towards it exploded my friend was killed i survived me across the border in iraq civilians there are also struggling to rebuild their homes with the countrys second largest city almost completely reduced to rubble mosul was liberated by the u. S. Led coalition and iraqi forces back in july after months of fierce fighting and airstrikes some forty thousand homes are need to be rebuilt or repaired according to the u. N. The government says it needs some eighty eight billion dollars in reconstruction funds for areas devastated by war some that it aims to raise at a conference thats just got underway right however the u. S. Which is expected to attend said it has no plans to contribute money using u. S. Government and. Im not aware of any announcements that we will be making and i can tell you overall. Over the past few years we have.
Those are the headlines to keep it here on aljazeera inside story is next then more news after that keep it or. The number of child soldiers is expanding and many war zones according to the u. N. Tens of thousands of children are involved in conflicts in over twenty countries around the world so what should be done to stop this practice this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im home monday marks the International Day against the use of child soldiers its a problem that shows no sign of ending in fact many Rights Groups and the u. N. Say its getting worse there are tens of thousands of children around the world putting their lives at risk and the global effort to fight this doesnt have the money it needs in two thousand and fifteen less than one percent of the estimated one hundred seventy four billion dollars of International Aid was spent on this issue. But its not all doom and gloom there has been some progress at least five thousand child soldiers were released and i