Sara Beining

“The Costs of War Project at Brown University reports that from 9/11 through 2018, the United States waged war or maintained a military presence in seventy-six nations. That’s 39 percent of the world’s countries.”
― Howard Bryant, Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field

“The only conspiracy that exists is the conspiracy of incompetence.”
― C.J. Box, Nowhere To Run

“Finally, these wars have been largely paid for by borrowing, part of the reason the US went from budget surplus to deficits after 2001,” according to the Costs of War report. “Even if the US stopped spending on war at the end of this fiscal year, interest costs alone on borrowing to pay for the wars will continue to grow apace. . . . Future interest costs for overseas contingency operations spending alone are projected to add more than $1 trillion to the national debt by 2023. By 2056, a conservative estimate is that interest costs will be about $8 trillion unless the US changes the way it pays for the wars.”
― Howard Bryant, Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field

“vast house farms out in the loglo wilderness, a culture medium for a medium culture.”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash