{"id":37648,"date":"2013-09-06T09:55:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T16:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=37648"},"modified":"2013-09-06T09:55:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T16:55:48","slug":"estimating-the-costs-of-a-syria-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/09\/06\/estimating-the-costs-of-a-syria-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Estimating the Costs of a Syria War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130906Uprising\/2013_09_06_syria_budget.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130906Uprising\/2013_09_06_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/cost_of_syria_war.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>The August jobs report released yesterday shows a slower than expected growth in job creation in an economy that is still recovering from the worst recession in decades. In this context, a push for military action in Syria is not just undesirable for a war-weary public, but also unaffordable. <\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State John Kerry said at the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing this week that certain unnamed Arab countries had offered to cover the costs of a US military operation. At the same hearing Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel estimated that the actual cost could run into the tens of millions of dollars. <\/p>\n<p>Yet, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Martin Dempsey, said in a letter to the Obama administration earlier this year, that training and assisting the rebels could cost $500 million a year, while establishing a no-fly zone could cost $500 million initially and then average $1 billion a month to maintain. <\/p>\n<p>Past US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan offer some estimates. The Iraq war alone cost $800 billion, wildly off the scale of the initial estimate of $60 billion. <\/p>\n<p>Now, the National Priorities Project has a new online tool called the \u201cCost of National Security,\u201d enabling the public to, for example, estimate the cost of a few Tomahawk missiles and what the same money could pay for in their own cities in terms of roads and schools. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Mattea Kramer, Research Director with the National Priorities Project<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Visit the website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpriorities.org\">www.nationalpriorities.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The August jobs report released yesterday shows a slower than expected growth in job creation in an economy that is still recovering from the worst recession in decades. In this context, a push for military action in Syria is not just undesirable for a war-weary public, but also unaffordable. Secretary of State John Kerry said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37652,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37648\/revisions\/37652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}