  The Collapsing U.S. Economy And The End Of The World  July 10,
2012 by    The Collapsing U.S. Economy And The End Of The World
The outlook for economic recovery is poor.  Washington has been
at war since October 2001, when President George W. Bush
concocted an excuse to order the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.
This war took a backseat when Bush concocted another excuse to
order the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a war that went on without
significant success for eight years and has left Iraq in chaos
with dozens more killed and wounded every day, a new strongman
in place of the illegally executed former strongman, and the
likelihood of the ongoing violence becoming civil war.  Upon his
election, President Barack Obama foolishly sent more troops to
Afghanistan and renewed the intensity of that war, now in its
11th year, to no successful effect.  These two wars have been
expensive. According to estimates by Joseph Stiglitz and Linda
Bilmes, when all costs are counted, the Iraq invasion cost U.S.
taxpayers $3 trilli