The U.S. Gets Less Involved in Ground Wars
Considering the massive $20 trillion debt the U.S. is struggling with, our country simply can’t afford waging large ground wars anymore. To get a better glimpse at it, the FY 2012 budget reached $804.8 billion to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is much more than Social Security or Medicare, as it led to $1.087 trillion deficit.
When Osama bin Laden was captured in 2011, it was proven that low-cost special ops actually did a better job than the wars in Afghanistan to make U.S. citizens feel safer.
How it affects you: We’ve all seen how much terrorism has been growing in 2017 and it doesn’t seem like America is doing much to stop it. This makes most Americans feel unsafe and acting differently, thus leading to an insecure atmosphere. All in all, the U.S. global power is declining.
