In Nothing We Trust:
“I was middle class for 10 years, but it’s done. I’ve lost my home. I live in a trailer now because of a mortgage company and an incompetent government.”
—Johnny Whitmire of Muncie, Indiana
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The Cost of bin Laden: $3 Trillion Over 15 Years
The most expensive public enemy in American history died Sunday from two bullets.
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 conservative estimates, bin Laden cost the United States at least $3 trillion over the past 15 years, counting the disruptions he wrought on the domestic economy, the wars and heightened security triggered by the terrorist attacks he engineered, and the direct efforts to hunt him down.
