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Calculated Shard: 30 (from laksa017)

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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa030.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/benking/the-afghan-war-by-the-numbers\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/benking/the-afghan-war-by-the-numbers\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/benking\/the-afghan-war-by-the-numbers","crawl_time":1775549632,"first_indexed_time":1629246509,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,buzzfeednews!www,\/article\/benking\/the-afghan-war-by-the-numbers s443","src_root_hash":"15437664457221755230","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"The Afghan War, By The Numbers","meta_descriptions":["What 20 years of fighting in Afghanistan cost — in dollars and in lives."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Total spent by US\n$2.26 trillion.\nOfficially, the Department of Defense, the State Department, USAID, and other government agencies have spent\nroughly $887 billion\non the war in Afghanistan and reconstruction. But Brown University’s Costs of War project\nestimates\nthat the full cost was $2.26 trillion, including veterans’ medical and disability costs, interest on borrowing, and other factors.\nUniversal, high-quality early care and education\nfor all US children\nfor 10 years would cost\n$1.4 trillion.\nThe cost of the war was almost twice that of the\n$1.2 trillion\ninfrastructure bill the Senate passed last week, which\nhas been described as\n“easily the biggest infrastructure package in decades.”\nThe cost of the war is roughly 12 times Jeff Bezos’s net worth, which is approximately\n$190 billion.\nUS Troops\nMore than\n775,000 US service members\nwere deployed to Afghanistan at least once between 2001 and 2019,\naccording to data provided by the Pentagon to the Washington Post\n.\nThat’s about the entire population of\nSeattle, where 737,015 people live,\naccording to the 2020 Census\n. It’s also more people than live in Denver, Boston, or Washington, DC — or the entire states of Alaska, Vermont, or Wyoming.\n20,666:\nUS military members wounded in action in Afghanistan.\n(Source:\nDepartment of Defense\n.)\n2,312:\nUS military deaths in Afghanistan.\n(Source:\nDepartment of Defense\n.)\nTotal Deaths\n240,000:\nApproximate total deaths as a direct result of war in Afghanistan and Pakistan.\n(Source:\nCosts of War Project\n.)\nThat’s roughly 80 times the death toll of the September 11, 2001 attacks.\nRefugees\nMore than 3.5 million:\nPeople now internally displaced in Afghanistan.\n(Source:\nUN\n.)\nMore than 2.5 million:\nAfghan refugees at the end of 2020.\n(Source:\nUN\n.)","attrs_markdown":"Reporting To You\n\n[Sign In](https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/signin?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzfeednews.com%2Fauth%2Fsso%2Fsignin%3F)\n\n- [Sign In](https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/signin?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzfeednews.com%2Fauth%2Fsso%2Fsignin%3Fredirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzfeednews.com%2Farticle%2Fbenking%2Fthe-afghan-war-by-the-numbers)\n- [About Us](https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/buzzfeednews\/about-buzzfeed-news)\n- [Got A Tip?](https:\/\/tips.buzzfeednews.com\/)\n- [buzzfeed.com](https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/)\n\n# The Afghan War, By The Numbers\nWhat 20 years of fighting in Afghanistan cost — in dollars and in lives.\n\nBy\n\n[![Ben King](https:\/\/img.buzzfeed.com\/buzzfeed-static\/static\/2016-04\/22\/17\/user_images\/webdr10\/benking-v2-11720-1461361417-0_large.jpg?downsize=120:*&output-format=jpg&output-quality=auto) by Ben King BuzzFeed News Art Director](https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/author\/benking)\n\nand\n\n[![Jeremy Singer-Vine](https:\/\/img.buzzfeed.com\/buzzfeed-static\/TfsTs5Fnc_large.png?crop=453%253A453%253B23%252C0&downsize=120:*&output-format=jpg&output-quality=auto) by Jeremy Singer-Vine BuzzFeed News Reporter](https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/author\/jsvine)\n\nPosted on August 18, 2021 at 12:18 am\n\n23Comments\n\nView All 23 Comments\n\n![](https:\/\/img.buzzfeed.com\/buzzfeed-static\/static\/2021-08\/17\/22\/asset\/4818e3dfb06d\/sub-buzz-7222-1629238455-24.jpg?downsize=1040%3A%2A&output-quality=auto&output-format=auto)\n\nNicolas Asfouri \/ AFP via Getty Images\n\nA US soldier looks on as a C-117 plane drops food, water, and other supplies onto a landing zone at an undisclosed location in the Ghazni province of Afghanistan, some 200 kilometers southwest of Kabul, on May 29, 2007.\n\n## Total spent by US\n\\$2.26 trillion. Officially, the Department of Defense, the State Department, USAID, and other government agencies have spent [roughly \\$887 billion](https:\/\/www.sigar.mil\/pdf\/quarterlyreports\/2021-07-30qr-section2-funding.pdf) on the war in Afghanistan and reconstruction. But Brown University’s Costs of War project [estimates](https:\/\/watson.brown.edu\/costsofwar\/figures\/2021\/human-and-budgetary-costs-date-us-war-afghanistan-2001-2021) that the full cost was \\$2.26 trillion, including veterans’ medical and disability costs, interest on borrowing, and other factors.\n\n![](https:\/\/documents.buzzfeednews.com\/_NewsDesign\/investigations\/2021_08XX_AFG_Info\/1a.jpg)\n\nFor comparison, it would take \\$1.7 trillion to pay off [all outstanding US student loans](https:\/\/www.federalreserve.gov\/releases\/g19\/HIST\/cc_hist_memo_levels.html).\n\nUniversal, high-quality early care and education [for all US children](https:\/\/www.nationalacademies.org\/news\/2018\/02\/financial-structure-of-early-childhood-education-requires-overhaul-to-make-it-accessible-and-affordable-for-all-families-and-to-strengthen-the-workforce-in-this-field) for 10 years would cost \\$1.4 trillion.\n\nThe cost of the war was almost twice that of the \\$1.2 trillion infrastructure bill the Senate passed last week, which [has been described as](https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blog\/the-avenue\/2021\/08\/05\/the-senate-infrastructure-bill-puts-america-closer-to-another-new-deal\/) “easily the biggest infrastructure package in decades.”\n\n![](https:\/\/documents.buzzfeednews.com\/_NewsDesign\/investigations\/2021_08XX_AFG_Info\/bezos3.jpg)\n\nThe cost of the war is roughly 12 times Jeff Bezos’s net worth, which is approximately \\$190 billion.\n## US Troops\n![](https:\/\/documents.buzzfeednews.com\/_NewsDesign\/investigations\/2021_08XX_AFG_Info\/US_deaths.jpg)\n\nMore than 775,000 US service members were deployed to Afghanistan at least once between 2001 and 2019, [according to data provided by the Pentagon to the Washington Post](https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2019\/09\/11\/how-us-troops-fought-one-war-afghanistan-military-deployments-by-numbers\/).\n\nThat’s about the entire population of Seattle, where 737,015 people live, [according to the 2020 Census](https:\/\/www.census.gov\/quickfacts\/fact\/table\/seattlecitywashington\/POP010220#POP010220). It’s also more people than live in Denver, Boston, or Washington, DC — or the entire states of Alaska, Vermont, or Wyoming.\n\n20,666: US military members wounded in action in Afghanistan. (Source: [Department of Defense](https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/casualty.pdf).)\n\n2,312: US military deaths in Afghanistan. (Source: [Department of Defense](https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/casualty.pdf).)\n## Total Deaths\n![](https:\/\/documents.buzzfeednews.com\/_NewsDesign\/investigations\/2021_08XX_AFG_Info\/Deaths.jpg)\n\n240,000: Approximate total deaths as a direct result of war in Afghanistan and Pakistan. (Source: [Costs of War Project](https:\/\/watson.brown.edu\/costsofwar\/figures\/2021\/human-and-budgetary-costs-date-us-war-afghanistan-2001-2021).)\n\n![](https:\/\/documents.buzzfeednews.com\/_NewsDesign\/investigations\/2021_08XX_AFG_Info\/Deaths-911.jpg) ![](https:\/\/documents.buzzfeednews.com\/_NewsDesign\/investigations\/2021_08XX_AFG_Info\/Deaths-911-sm.jpg)\n\nThat’s roughly 80 times the death toll of the September 11, 2001 attacks.\n\n47,245: estimated Afghan civilians killed. (Source: [Costs of War Project](https:\/\/watson.brown.edu\/costsofwar\/figures\/2021\/human-and-budgetary-costs-date-us-war-afghanistan-2001-2021).)\n\n24,099: estimated Pakistani civilians killed. (Source: [Costs of War Project](https:\/\/watson.brown.edu\/costsofwar\/figures\/2021\/human-and-budgetary-costs-date-us-war-afghanistan-2001-2021).)\n\n458: Humanitarian aid workers killed in Afghanistan since the US invasion. (Source: [Aid Worker Security Database](https:\/\/aidworkersecurity.org\/incidents\/search?start=2001&detail=1&country=AF).)\n\n74: Journalists and media workers killed in Afghanistan since the US invasion. (Source: [The Committee to Protect Journalists](https:\/\/cpj.org\/data\/killed\/?status=Killed&motiveConfirmed%5B%5D=Confirmed&motiveUnconfirmed%5B%5D=Unconfirmed&type%5B%5D=Journalist&type%5B%5D=Media%20Worker&cc_fips%5B%5D=AF&start_year=2001&end_year=2021&group_by=year).)\n## Refugees\nMore than 3.5 million: People now internally displaced in Afghanistan. (Source: [UN](https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2021\/07\/1095782).)\n\nMore than 2.5 million: Afghan refugees at the end of 2020. (Source: [UN](https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/refugee-statistics\/download\/?url=T4uRSt).)\n\nAdvertisement\n\n![](https:\/\/img.buzzfeed.com\/buzzfeed-static\/static\/2021-08\/17\/22\/asset\/f25025f81e91\/sub-buzz-7245-1629238422-23.jpg?downsize=1040%3A%2A&output-quality=auto&output-format=auto)\n\nRahmat Gul \/ AP\n\nA US Chinook helicopter flies over the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 15, 2021.\n\n- [![Ben King](https:\/\/img.buzzfeed.com\/buzzfeed-static\/static\/2016-04\/22\/17\/user_images\/webdr10\/benking-v2-11720-1461361417-0_large.jpg?downsize=120:*&output-format=jpg&output-quality=auto) Ben King BuzzFeed News Art Director](https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/author\/benking)\n- [![Jeremy Singer-Vine](https:\/\/img.buzzfeed.com\/buzzfeed-static\/TfsTs5Fnc_large.png?crop=453%253A453%253B23%252C0&downsize=120:*&output-format=jpg&output-quality=auto) Jeremy Singer-Vine BuzzFeed News Reporter](https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/author\/jsvine)\n\n## Comments\n- Top Comment\n  ![](https:\/\/img.buzzfeed.com\/buzzfeed-static\/static\/avatars\/scruffymut.jpg?fill=50%3A50&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto)\n  \n  [wombraider](https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/wombraider)\n  \n  4 years ago\n  \n  Aug 18, 20212:16 am\n  \n  What about the number of Afghan war veterans who are now on the streets homeless since their involvement? I met a few here and there. I’m betting that number is in the thousands too. The number of people who fought now crippled under medical bills for their PTSD and physical ailments?...\n  \n  Read more\n  13 people love this comment\n  \n  Reply\n\nView All 23 Comments\n\nPost\n\nComments sidebar\n\nComments\n\nJoin the conversation\n\nBy commenting you're agreeing to our [Community Guidelines](https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/community\/guidelines)\n\n23 comments\n\nSort by:Selecting the radio button will refresh the page with new results ordered by either likes or date.\n\nMost Reacted\n\n- ![](https:\/\/img.buzzfeed.com\/buzzfeed-static\/static\/avatars\/scruffymut.jpg?fill=50%3A50&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto)\n  \n  [wombraider](https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/wombraider)\n  \n  4 years ago\n  \n  Aug 18, 20212:16 am\n  \n  What about the number of Afghan war veterans who are now on the streets homeless since their involvement? I met a few here and there. I’m betting that number is in the thousands too. The number of people who fought now crippled under medical bills for their PTSD and physical ailments?...\n  \n  Read more\n  13 people love this comment\n  \n  Reply\n- ![](https:\/\/img.buzzfeed.com\/buzzfeed-static\/static\/user_images\/B10VTJdBe.jpg?output-format=jpg&fill=50%3A50&output-quality=auto)\n  \n  [LetsDiscuss](https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/letsdiscuss)\n  \n  4 years ago\n  \n  Aug 18, 20216:57 pm\n  \n  There are a lot of misconceptions, particularly on buzzfeed, about what this was all about. First, the Taliban terrorized its population for 5 year (96-01), basically enacting a somehow worse version of what the Handmaiden’s Tale depicts on its people. Second, it stalwartly protected...\n  \n  Read more\n  12 people love this comment\n  \n  Reply\n  \n  Hide replies\n  \n  - ![](https:\/\/img.buzzfeed.com\/buzzfeed-static\/static\/avatars\/birb.jpg?fill=50%3A50&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto)\n    \n    [karanzas](https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/karanzas)\n    \n    4 years ago\n    \n    Aug 19, 20211:38 am\n    \n    Well the US basicly crested and Armed the Taliban in the 70s, the reasoning that the US created middle eastern terrorism by constantly meddling in the region is not wrong, sadly the US has been destabilizing the region for its own interest since the 50s and the innocent get to reap...\n    \n    Read more\n    Like\n    \n    Reply\n  - ![](https:\/\/img.buzzfeed.com\/buzzfeed-static\/static\/user_images\/B10VTJdBe.jpg?output-format=jpg&fill=50%3A50&output-quality=auto)\n    \n    [LetsDiscuss](https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/letsdiscuss)\n    \n    4 years ago\n    \n    Aug 19, 20212:14 am\n    \n    @karanzas there is some truth to what you are saying, but it lacks historical context. The US armed what was known as the Mujahideen in 80s to fight the Soviets, who had invaded Afghanistan. Obviously, during the Cold War in particular, the US made a series of poor foreign policy...\n    \n    Read more\n    4 people love this comment\n    \n    Reply\n- ![](https:\/\/img.buzzfeed.com\/buzzfeed-static\/static\/2015-01\/25\/18\/user_images\/webdr12\/tgsoulliere-9654-1422229089-3.jpg?fill=50%3A50&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto)\n  \n  [Darraj32](https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/joljah21)\n  \n  4 years ago\n  \n  Aug 18, 20216:22 pm\n  \n  This is all so fucking disgusting. I understand troops had to leave, but why not take the time to make sure all allies and vulnerable people had a way out too? What’s another year if they’ve already been there for twenty?? There are so many young people that weren’t even alive for...\n  \n  Read more\n  9 people love this comment\n  \n  Reply\n  \n  Hide replies\n  \n  - ![](https:\/\/img.buzzfeed.com\/buzzfeed-static\/static\/user_images\/B10VTJdBe.jpg?output-format=jpg&fill=50%3A50&output-quality=auto)\n    \n    [LetsDiscuss](https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/letsdiscuss)\n    \n    4 years ago\n    \n    Aug 20, 20219:13 pm\n    \n    The problem, per usual, is poor policy. Trump opened negotiations with the Taliban, which literally made me sick. He agreed to a drawdown ending in May 2021. That left Biden with 4 months to enact a plan (after being shut out of a reasonable transfer of power), but I’m sure it was...\n    \n    Read more\n    Like\n    \n    Reply\n- ![](https:\/\/img.buzzfeed.com\/buzzfeed-static\/static\/avatars\/scruffymut.jpg?fill=50%3A50&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto)\n  \n  [wagonroad](https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/wagonroad)\n  \n  4 years ago\n  \n  Aug 18, 20211:44 pm\n  \n  President Biden sated my opinion exactly when he said that the Afghan people had 20 years to assist the U.S. military get rid of the Taliban and failed to do so, therefore it is pointless to remain there hoping that things will change. My beliefs are formed by my experiences in the...\n  \n  Read more\n  8 people love this comment\n  \n  Reply\n  \n  Hide replies\n  \n  - ![](https:\/\/img.buzzfeed.com\/buzzfeed-static\/static\/avatars\/pom.jpg?fill=50%3A50&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto)\n    \n    [pixieiskall](https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/pixieiskall)\n    \n    4 years ago\n    \n    Aug 19, 20212:56 am\n    \n    Thank you for your service 🙏🏻 and thank you for your input. I’m sure you were beyond devastated at the fall of Saigon. The parallels of the Vietnam war vs the Afghanistan war must be difficult to witness.\n    Like\n    \n    Reply\n- ![](https:\/\/img.buzzfeed.com\/buzzfeed-static\/static\/avatars\/quokka.jpg?fill=50%3A50&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto)\n  \n  [NerdGirl](https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/snodge27)\n  \n  4 years ago\n  \n  Aug 18, 20215:09 am\n  \n  Monstrous.\n  6 people love this comment\n  \n  Reply\n- ![](https:\/\/img.buzzfeed.com\/store-an-image-prod-us-east-1\/yZnnEgvnA.png?fill=50%3A50&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto)\n  \n  [Pixxiemeat](https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/pixxiemeat)\n  \n  4 years ago\n  \n  Aug 18, 20216:19 pm\n  \n  Considering what’s happening over there right now, don’t you think this article is tone deaf?\n  4 people love this comment\n  \n  Reply\n  \n  Hide replies\n  \n  - ![](https:\/\/img.buzzfeed.com\/store-an-image-prod-us-east-1\/yZnnEgvnA.png?fill=50%3A50&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto)\n    \n    [Jasc](https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/jeanalexanders)\n    \n    4 years ago\n    \n    Aug 19, 202112:45 am\n    \n    No\n    Like\n    \n    Reply\n  - ![](https:\/\/img.buzzfeed.com\/buzzfeed-static\/static\/avatars\/pom.jpg?fill=50%3A50&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto)\n    \n    [pixieiskall](https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/pixieiskall)\n    \n    4 years ago\n    \n    Aug 19, 20212:54 am\n    \n    @jasc how so?\n    Like\n    \n    Reply\n- ![](https:\/\/img.buzzfeed.com\/store-an-image-prod-us-east-1\/yZnnEgvnA.png?fill=50%3A50&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto)\n  \n  [Dnm120](https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/dnm120)\n  \n  4 years ago\n  \n  Aug 18, 20212:32 am\n  \n  So if someone attacks us on US soil killing thousands of civilians, we should just do nothing? From now on, we just let it happen? All these numbers are missing the point, pretty much everyone wanted to go to war after 9\/11. Everyone was on board. Things happened in a chain reaction...\n  \n  Read more\n  3 people love this comment\n  \n  Reply\n  \n  Hide replies\n  \n  - ![](https:\/\/img.buzzfeed.com\/store-an-image-prod-us-east-1\/yZnnEgvnA.png?fill=50%3A50&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto)\n    \n    [maevelynnc2](https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/maevelynnc2)\n    \n    4 years ago\n    \n    Aug 18, 202110:05 am\n    \n    I sure the fuck wasn’t down to go to war. It was an awful terror attack. But it doesn’t justify the terrorism with which this country retributed.\n    2 people love this comment\n    \n    Reply\n  - ![](https:\/\/img.buzzfeed.com\/store-an-image-prod-us-east-1\/yZnnEgvnA.png?fill=50%3A50&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto)\n    \n    [Jasc](https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/jeanalexanders)\n    \n    4 years ago\n    \n    Aug 19, 202112:48 am\n    \n    Al-qaeda and ISIS are practically dead. The Taliban probably doesn't want a repeat of the last 20 years.\n    Like\n    \n    Reply\n- ![](https:\/\/img.buzzfeed.com\/store-an-image-prod-us-east-1\/yZnnEgvnA.png?fill=50%3A50&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto)\n  \n  [e410d0d48d](https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/e410d0d48d)\n  \n  4 years ago\n  \n  Aug 22, 20218:34 pm\n  \n  Something that really annoyed me about Joe Biden's announcement (and I prefer him to whatever was happening in the White House before him) was when he said that US equipped Afghans and now they are running away, giving up too easily, not fighting (paraphrasing) . They lost over hundred...\n  \n  Read more\n  Like\n  \n  Reply\n- ![](https:\/\/img.buzzfeed.com\/buzzfeed-static\/static\/avatars\/sadtoad.jpg?fill=50%3A50&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto)\n  \n  [mdf379](https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/mdf379)\n  \n  4 years ago\n  \n  Aug 22, 20214:37 am\n  \n  To put numbers like “a billion” and “a trillion” in perspective: We all know what it is like to experience one second, but how about a billion seconds? In fact a billion seconds is more than 31 years. A trillion, more than 31,000 years.\n  Like\n  \n  Reply\n- ![](https:\/\/img.buzzfeed.com\/buzzfeed-static\/static\/avatars\/sloth.jpg?fill=50%3A50&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto)\n  \n  [alphmanga52](https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/alphmanga52)\n  \n  4 years ago\n  \n  Aug 19, 202110:43 am\n  \n  estimated 75,000 Afghan military and police officers perished in direct war deaths and an additional estimated 71,334 civilians died directly because of war.\n  Like\n  \n  Reply\n\n## BuzzFeed Daily\nKeep up with the latest daily buzz with the BuzzFeed Daily newsletter\\!\n\n## Your New Favorite Thing\n- [![Cute novelty pens with fruit-themed animal topper designs: bear, mustache face, duck, and cat. 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Boilerpipe Text	Total spent by US $2.26 trillion. Officially, the Department of Defense, the State Department, USAID, and other government agencies have spent roughly $887 billion on the war in Afghanistan and reconstruction. But Brown University’s Costs of War project estimates that the full cost was $2.26 trillion, including veterans’ medical and disability costs, interest on borrowing, and other factors. Universal, high-quality early care and education for all US children for 10 years would cost $1.4 trillion. The cost of the war was almost twice that of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill the Senate passed last week, which has been described as “easily the biggest infrastructure package in decades.” The cost of the war is roughly 12 times Jeff Bezos’s net worth, which is approximately $190 billion. US Troops More than 775,000 US service members were deployed to Afghanistan at least once between 2001 and 2019, according to data provided by the Pentagon to the Washington Post . That’s about the entire population of Seattle, where 737,015 people live, according to the 2020 Census . It’s also more people than live in Denver, Boston, or Washington, DC — or the entire states of Alaska, Vermont, or Wyoming. 20,666: US military members wounded in action in Afghanistan. (Source: Department of Defense .) 2,312: US military deaths in Afghanistan. (Source: Department of Defense .) Total Deaths 240,000: Approximate total deaths as a direct result of war in Afghanistan and Pakistan. (Source: Costs of War Project .) That’s roughly 80 times the death toll of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Refugees More than 3.5 million: People now internally displaced in Afghanistan. (Source: UN .) More than 2.5 million: Afghan refugees at the end of 2020. (Source: UN .)
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By [![Ben King](https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2016-04/22/17/user_images/webdr10/benking-v2-11720-1461361417-0_large.jpg?downsize=120:&output-format=jpg&output-quality=auto) by Ben King BuzzFeed News Art Director](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/author/benking) and [![Jeremy Singer-Vine](https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/TfsTs5Fnc_large.png?crop=453%253A453%253B23%252C0&downsize=120:&output-format=jpg&output-quality=auto) by Jeremy Singer-Vine BuzzFeed News Reporter](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/author/jsvine) Posted on August 18, 2021 at 12:18 am 23Comments View All 23 Comments ![](https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2021-08/17/22/asset/4818e3dfb06d/sub-buzz-7222-1629238455-24.jpg?downsize=1040%3A%2A&output-quality=auto&output-format=auto) Nicolas Asfouri / AFP via Getty Images A US soldier looks on as a C-117 plane drops food, water, and other supplies onto a landing zone at an undisclosed location in the Ghazni province of Afghanistan, some 200 kilometers southwest of Kabul, on May 29, 2007. ## Total spent by US \$2.26 trillion. Officially, the Department of Defense, the State Department, USAID, and other government agencies have spent [roughly \$887 billion](https://www.sigar.mil/pdf/quarterlyreports/2021-07-30qr-section2-funding.pdf) on the war in Afghanistan and reconstruction. But Brown University’s Costs of War project [estimates](https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/figures/2021/human-and-budgetary-costs-date-us-war-afghanistan-2001-2021) that the full cost was \$2.26 trillion, including veterans’ medical and disability costs, interest on borrowing, and other factors. ![](https://documents.buzzfeednews.com/_NewsDesign/investigations/2021_08XX_AFG_Info/1a.jpg) For comparison, it would take \$1.7 trillion to pay off [all outstanding US student loans](https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g19/HIST/cc_hist_memo_levels.html). Universal, high-quality early care and education [for all US children](https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2018/02/financial-structure-of-early-childhood-education-requires-overhaul-to-make-it-accessible-and-affordable-for-all-families-and-to-strengthen-the-workforce-in-this-field) for 10 years would cost \$1.4 trillion. The cost of the war was almost twice that of the \$1.2 trillion infrastructure bill the Senate passed last week, which [has been described as](https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2021/08/05/the-senate-infrastructure-bill-puts-america-closer-to-another-new-deal/) “easily the biggest infrastructure package in decades.” ![](https://documents.buzzfeednews.com/_NewsDesign/investigations/2021_08XX_AFG_Info/bezos3.jpg) The cost of the war is roughly 12 times Jeff Bezos’s net worth, which is approximately \$190 billion. ## US Troops ![](https://documents.buzzfeednews.com/_NewsDesign/investigations/2021_08XX_AFG_Info/US_deaths.jpg) More than 775,000 US service members were deployed to Afghanistan at least once between 2001 and 2019, [according to data provided by the Pentagon to the Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2019/09/11/how-us-troops-fought-one-war-afghanistan-military-deployments-by-numbers/). That’s about the entire population of Seattle, where 737,015 people live, [according to the 2020 Census](https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/seattlecitywashington/POP010220#POP010220). It’s also more people than live in Denver, Boston, or Washington, DC — or the entire states of Alaska, Vermont, or Wyoming. 20,666: US military members wounded in action in Afghanistan. (Source: [Department of Defense](https://www.defense.gov/casualty.pdf).) 2,312: US military deaths in Afghanistan. (Source: [Department of Defense](https://www.defense.gov/casualty.pdf).) ## Total Deaths ![](https://documents.buzzfeednews.com/_NewsDesign/investigations/2021_08XX_AFG_Info/Deaths.jpg) 240,000: Approximate total deaths as a direct result of war in Afghanistan and Pakistan. (Source: [Costs of War Project](https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/figures/2021/human-and-budgetary-costs-date-us-war-afghanistan-2001-2021).) ![](https://documents.buzzfeednews.com/_NewsDesign/investigations/2021_08XX_AFG_Info/Deaths-911.jpg) ![](https://documents.buzzfeednews.com/_NewsDesign/investigations/2021_08XX_AFG_Info/Deaths-911-sm.jpg) That’s roughly 80 times the death toll of the September 11, 2001 attacks. 47,245: estimated Afghan civilians killed. (Source: [Costs of War Project](https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/figures/2021/human-and-budgetary-costs-date-us-war-afghanistan-2001-2021).) 24,099: estimated Pakistani civilians killed. (Source: [Costs of War Project](https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/figures/2021/human-and-budgetary-costs-date-us-war-afghanistan-2001-2021).) 458: Humanitarian aid workers killed in Afghanistan since the US invasion. (Source: [Aid Worker Security Database](https://aidworkersecurity.org/incidents/search?start=2001&detail=1&country=AF).) 74: Journalists and media workers killed in Afghanistan since the US invasion. (Source: [The Committee to Protect Journalists](https://cpj.org/data/killed/?status=Killed&motiveConfirmed%5B%5D=Confirmed&motiveUnconfirmed%5B%5D=Unconfirmed&type%5B%5D=Journalist&type%5B%5D=Media%20Worker&cc_fips%5B%5D=AF&start_year=2001&end_year=2021&group_by=year).) ## Refugees More than 3.5 million: People now internally displaced in Afghanistan. (Source: [UN](https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/07/1095782).) More than 2.5 million: Afghan refugees at the end of 2020. (Source: [UN](https://www.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics/download/?url=T4uRSt).) Advertisement ![](https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2021-08/17/22/asset/f25025f81e91/sub-buzz-7245-1629238422-23.jpg?downsize=1040%3A%2A&output-quality=auto&output-format=auto) Rahmat Gul / AP A US Chinook helicopter flies over the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 15, 2021. - [![Ben King](https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2016-04/22/17/user_images/webdr10/benking-v2-11720-1461361417-0_large.jpg?downsize=120:&output-format=jpg&output-quality=auto) Ben King BuzzFeed News Art Director](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/author/benking) - [![Jeremy Singer-Vine](https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/TfsTs5Fnc_large.png?crop=453%253A453%253B23%252C0&downsize=120:&output-format=jpg&output-quality=auto) Jeremy Singer-Vine BuzzFeed News Reporter](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/author/jsvine) ## Comments - Top Comment ![](https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/avatars/scruffymut.jpg?fill=50%3A50&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto) [wombraider](https://www.buzzfeed.com/wombraider) 4 years ago Aug 18, 20212:16 am What about the number of Afghan war veterans who are now on the streets homeless since their involvement? I met a few here and there. I’m betting that number is in the thousands too. The number of people who fought now crippled under medical bills for their PTSD and physical ailments?... Read more 13 people love this comment Reply View All 23 Comments Post Comments sidebar Comments Join the conversation By commenting you're agreeing to our [Community Guidelines](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/community/guidelines) 23 comments Sort by:Selecting the radio button will refresh the page with new results ordered by either likes or date. Most Reacted - ![](https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/avatars/scruffymut.jpg?fill=50%3A50&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto) [wombraider](https://www.buzzfeed.com/wombraider) 4 years ago Aug 18, 20212:16 am What about the number of Afghan war veterans who are now on the streets homeless since their involvement? I met a few here and there. I’m betting that number is in the thousands too. The number of people who fought now crippled under medical bills for their PTSD and physical ailments?... Read more 13 people love this comment Reply - ![](https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/user_images/B10VTJdBe.jpg?output-format=jpg&fill=50%3A50&output-quality=auto) [LetsDiscuss](https://www.buzzfeed.com/letsdiscuss) 4 years ago Aug 18, 20216:57 pm There are a lot of misconceptions, particularly on buzzfeed, about what this was all about. First, the Taliban terrorized its population for 5 year (96-01), basically enacting a somehow worse version of what the Handmaiden’s Tale depicts on its people. Second, it stalwartly protected... Read more 12 people love this comment Reply Hide replies - ![](https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/avatars/birb.jpg?fill=50%3A50&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto) [karanzas](https://www.buzzfeed.com/karanzas) 4 years ago Aug 19, 20211:38 am Well the US basicly crested and Armed the Taliban in the 70s, the reasoning that the US created middle eastern terrorism by constantly meddling in the region is not wrong, sadly the US has been destabilizing the region for its own interest since the 50s and the innocent get to reap... Read more Like Reply - ![](https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/user_images/B10VTJdBe.jpg?output-format=jpg&fill=50%3A50&output-quality=auto) [LetsDiscuss](https://www.buzzfeed.com/letsdiscuss) 4 years ago Aug 19, 20212:14 am @karanzas there is some truth to what you are saying, but it lacks historical context. The US armed what was known as the Mujahideen in 80s to fight the Soviets, who had invaded Afghanistan. Obviously, during the Cold War in particular, the US made a series of poor foreign policy... Read more 4 people love this comment Reply - ![](https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2015-01/25/18/user_images/webdr12/tgsoulliere-9654-1422229089-3.jpg?fill=50%3A50&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto) [Darraj32](https://www.buzzfeed.com/joljah21) 4 years ago Aug 18, 20216:22 pm This is all so fucking disgusting. I understand troops had to leave, but why not take the time to make sure all allies and vulnerable people had a way out too? What’s another year if they’ve already been there for twenty?? There are so many young people that weren’t even alive for... Read more 9 people love this comment Reply Hide replies - ![](https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/user_images/B10VTJdBe.jpg?output-format=jpg&fill=50%3A50&output-quality=auto) [LetsDiscuss](https://www.buzzfeed.com/letsdiscuss) 4 years ago Aug 20, 20219:13 pm The problem, per usual, is poor policy. Trump opened negotiations with the Taliban, which literally made me sick. He agreed to a drawdown ending in May 2021. That left Biden with 4 months to enact a plan (after being shut out of a reasonable transfer of power), but I’m sure it was... Read more Like Reply - ![](https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/avatars/scruffymut.jpg?fill=50%3A50&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto) [wagonroad](https://www.buzzfeed.com/wagonroad) 4 years ago Aug 18, 20211:44 pm President Biden sated my opinion exactly when he said that the Afghan people had 20 years to assist the U.S. military get rid of the Taliban and failed to do so, therefore it is pointless to remain there hoping that things will change. My beliefs are formed by my experiences in the... Read more 8 people love this comment Reply Hide replies - ![](https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/avatars/pom.jpg?fill=50%3A50&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto) [pixieiskall](https://www.buzzfeed.com/pixieiskall) 4 years ago Aug 19, 20212:56 am Thank you for your service 🙏🏻 and thank you for your input. I’m sure you were beyond devastated at the fall of Saigon. The parallels of the Vietnam war vs the Afghanistan war must be difficult to witness. Like Reply - ![](https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/avatars/quokka.jpg?fill=50%3A50&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto) [NerdGirl](https://www.buzzfeed.com/snodge27) 4 years ago Aug 18, 20215:09 am Monstrous. 6 people love this comment Reply - ![](https://img.buzzfeed.com/store-an-image-prod-us-east-1/yZnnEgvnA.png?fill=50%3A50&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto) [Pixxiemeat](https://www.buzzfeed.com/pixxiemeat) 4 years ago Aug 18, 20216:19 pm Considering what’s happening over there right now, don’t you think this article is tone deaf? 4 people love this comment Reply Hide replies - ![](https://img.buzzfeed.com/store-an-image-prod-us-east-1/yZnnEgvnA.png?fill=50%3A50&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto) [Jasc](https://www.buzzfeed.com/jeanalexanders) 4 years ago Aug 19, 202112:45 am No Like Reply - ![](https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/avatars/pom.jpg?fill=50%3A50&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto) [pixieiskall](https://www.buzzfeed.com/pixieiskall) 4 years ago Aug 19, 20212:54 am @jasc how so? Like Reply - ![](https://img.buzzfeed.com/store-an-image-prod-us-east-1/yZnnEgvnA.png?fill=50%3A50&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto) [Dnm120](https://www.buzzfeed.com/dnm120) 4 years ago Aug 18, 20212:32 am So if someone attacks us on US soil killing thousands of civilians, we should just do nothing? From now on, we just let it happen? All these numbers are missing the point, pretty much everyone wanted to go to war after 9/11. Everyone was on board. Things happened in a chain reaction... Read more 3 people love this comment Reply Hide replies - ![](https://img.buzzfeed.com/store-an-image-prod-us-east-1/yZnnEgvnA.png?fill=50%3A50&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto) [maevelynnc2](https://www.buzzfeed.com/maevelynnc2) 4 years ago Aug 18, 202110:05 am I sure the fuck wasn’t down to go to war. It was an awful terror attack. But it doesn’t justify the terrorism with which this country retributed. 2 people love this comment Reply - ![](https://img.buzzfeed.com/store-an-image-prod-us-east-1/yZnnEgvnA.png?fill=50%3A50&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto) [Jasc](https://www.buzzfeed.com/jeanalexanders) 4 years ago Aug 19, 202112:48 am Al-qaeda and ISIS are practically dead. The Taliban probably doesn't want a repeat of the last 20 years. Like Reply - ![](https://img.buzzfeed.com/store-an-image-prod-us-east-1/yZnnEgvnA.png?fill=50%3A50&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto) [e410d0d48d](https://www.buzzfeed.com/e410d0d48d) 4 years ago Aug 22, 20218:34 pm Something that really annoyed me about Joe Biden's announcement (and I prefer him to whatever was happening in the White House before him) was when he said that US equipped Afghans and now they are running away, giving up too easily, not fighting (paraphrasing) . They lost over hundred... Read more Like Reply - ![](https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/avatars/sadtoad.jpg?fill=50%3A50&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto) [mdf379](https://www.buzzfeed.com/mdf379) 4 years ago Aug 22, 20214:37 am To put numbers like “a billion” and “a trillion” in perspective: We all know what it is like to experience one second, but how about a billion seconds? In fact a billion seconds is more than 31 years. A trillion, more than 31,000 years. Like Reply - ![](https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/avatars/sloth.jpg?fill=50%3A50&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto) [alphmanga52](https://www.buzzfeed.com/alphmanga52) 4 years ago Aug 19, 202110:43 am estimated 75,000 Afghan military and police officers perished in direct war deaths and an additional estimated 71,334 civilians died directly because of war. 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Readable Markdown	## Total spent by US \$2.26 trillion. Officially, the Department of Defense, the State Department, USAID, and other government agencies have spent [roughly \$887 billion](https://www.sigar.mil/pdf/quarterlyreports/2021-07-30qr-section2-funding.pdf) on the war in Afghanistan and reconstruction. But Brown University’s Costs of War project [estimates](https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/figures/2021/human-and-budgetary-costs-date-us-war-afghanistan-2001-2021) that the full cost was \$2.26 trillion, including veterans’ medical and disability costs, interest on borrowing, and other factors. ![](https://documents.buzzfeednews.com/_NewsDesign/investigations/2021_08XX_AFG_Info/1a.jpg) Universal, high-quality early care and education [for all US children](https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2018/02/financial-structure-of-early-childhood-education-requires-overhaul-to-make-it-accessible-and-affordable-for-all-families-and-to-strengthen-the-workforce-in-this-field) for 10 years would cost \$1.4 trillion. The cost of the war was almost twice that of the \$1.2 trillion infrastructure bill the Senate passed last week, which [has been described as](https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2021/08/05/the-senate-infrastructure-bill-puts-america-closer-to-another-new-deal/) “easily the biggest infrastructure package in decades.” ![](https://documents.buzzfeednews.com/_NewsDesign/investigations/2021_08XX_AFG_Info/bezos3.jpg) The cost of the war is roughly 12 times Jeff Bezos’s net worth, which is approximately \$190 billion. ## US Troops ![](https://documents.buzzfeednews.com/_NewsDesign/investigations/2021_08XX_AFG_Info/US_deaths.jpg) More than 775,000 US service members were deployed to Afghanistan at least once between 2001 and 2019, [according to data provided by the Pentagon to the Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2019/09/11/how-us-troops-fought-one-war-afghanistan-military-deployments-by-numbers/). That’s about the entire population of Seattle, where 737,015 people live, [according to the 2020 Census](https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/seattlecitywashington/POP010220#POP010220). It’s also more people than live in Denver, Boston, or Washington, DC — or the entire states of Alaska, Vermont, or Wyoming. 20,666: US military members wounded in action in Afghanistan. (Source: [Department of Defense](https://www.defense.gov/casualty.pdf).) 2,312: US military deaths in Afghanistan. (Source: [Department of Defense](https://www.defense.gov/casualty.pdf).) ## Total Deaths ![](https://documents.buzzfeednews.com/_NewsDesign/investigations/2021_08XX_AFG_Info/Deaths.jpg) 240,000: Approximate total deaths as a direct result of war in Afghanistan and Pakistan. (Source: [Costs of War Project](https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/figures/2021/human-and-budgetary-costs-date-us-war-afghanistan-2001-2021).) ![](https://documents.buzzfeednews.com/_NewsDesign/investigations/2021_08XX_AFG_Info/Deaths-911.jpg) ![](https://documents.buzzfeednews.com/_NewsDesign/investigations/2021_08XX_AFG_Info/Deaths-911-sm.jpg) That’s roughly 80 times the death toll of the September 11, 2001 attacks. ## Refugees More than 3.5 million: People now internally displaced in Afghanistan. (Source: [UN](https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/07/1095782).) More than 2.5 million: Afghan refugees at the end of 2020. (Source: [UN](https://www.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics/download/?url=T4uRSt).)
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