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By Joe Guzzardi | @joeguzzardi19 | 5:30 p.m. As the United States exited Afghanistan under cover of darkness, the 20-year war racked up costs of a staggering $2.3 trillion. The albatross was left over from President George W. Bush’s administration. Brown University’s Costs of War Project calculated that the federal taxpayer has spent about $16,000 per person to keep this futile conflict raging. The War Project consists of 35 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners and physicians who have been studying the Afghan War’s devastation since 2011. Brown University further estimates that the $2.3 trillion cost is understated because the totals don’t include the funds the United States is obligated to pay in future health-care costs for veterans or future interest payments on the money borrowed to finance the war, $600 billion in interest expense through 2023, and billions more to come in the following decades.

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