Cost of War on Terror: U.S. spent $1 trillion, the enemy spent about $100

[rfranklin]

"Congress has approved $1.075 trillion dollars for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and "war-related activities" since 2001, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. It included the costs in its budget outlook Tuesday.

The war expense topped $1 trillion in December 2009, when U.S. lawmakers approved the fiscal 2010 defense spending bill that included about $130 billion to be spent on the two conflicts through Sept. 30, 2010...."

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2611591520100126

Cost of a dozen box cutters, approx. $100 (a little more if you get the "comfort grip")

http://www.uline.com/Grp_24/Knives?pricode=wk326&gclid=CLmtttquzKACFUFM5QodqzK20A

Does something seem out of kilter here?

[Loge23]

1. Not at all...

...the military-industrial complex calls that "return on investment".

[Javaman]

2. Since the only thing we manufacture in bulk these days is massively

expensive weapons, Lockheed Martin, aka the US economy, has to justify it some how.

the permanent war economy.

[The_Commonist]

3. The epitome of hyperbole...

You saying 19 guys all got plane tickets for under 100 bucks?
Take it from there...

[needledriver]

8. The cost of flight school.

The cost of housing and living expenses for the 19 guys.

The cost of recruitment, training, arming, deploying every organized terrorist all over the world.

The OP wants to compare costs of the tools used by 19 terrorists and leave out the entire infrastructure it took to support them, but include every item in the military budget!

Pathetic.

K&UR

[The_Commonist]

10. We're supposed to want to have the truth on "our side."

And the truth is bad enough without this kind of thing.
When "we" do and say things like this, it kills "our" credibility, and makes "us" sound just like the teabaggers...

[Echo In Light]

4. EVERYTHING about the phony WoT reeks of 'out of kilter.'

[Echo In Light]

11. .

[evrstrong]

5. All for the pleasure of putting a "boot up their ass"

[NJmaverick]

6. Out of kilter- your numbers are the big thing that's off

[rfranklin]

7. Why, because I left out the cost of the plane tickets?

Okay, so it's a couple of hundred thousand dollars. Still pretty lopsided.

[NeedleCast]

9. No, it's because you're making an unfair comparison

If you can't figure that out, I doubt you'll understand or accept the explanations that have already been offered upthread.

[SpiralHawk]

12. "But there is a Bright Side." - xVP Dickie 'Five-Military-Deferments' Cheney (R)

"On the bright side, Republicon crony war, oil & munitions profits are WAY up. Smirk. Sneer."

- xVP Dickie 'Five-Military-Deferments' Cheney (R)

[unhappycamper]

13. Add in another 8 trillion dollars of military budgets since 2001 and

it starts to get expensive. $355 million dollar airplanes, 6 billion dollar submarines and $11.5 billion dollars aircraft carriers are part of the plan.

[Toots]

14. Doesn't even count the cost to our freedoms and at least one new government agency TSA

Domestic costs add up to a bundle as well.