The collapse of Afghanistan’s U.S.-installed government has been swifter and more precipitous than the “experts” predicted. Our multi-trillion-dollar “Global War on Terror” has also led to the collapse of Libya, the agony ISIS inflicted on countless civilians, the murder of innocents by U.S. drones, and other misdeeds that have made this country less safe, rather than more. Public Citizen has produced a well-researched memo showing that it would cost approximately $25 billion to provide vaccines to these countries by “scaling-up production in the United States and in regional manufacturing centers around the world.” This could vaccinate billions of people, many of whom live in countries with current vaccination rates as low as 2 or 3 percent. An investment of $25 billion is 1/280th—or roughly one-third of one percent—of the estimated $7 trillion we’ve spent on lethal and counterproductive wars that have killed more than a million innocent civilians and thousands of U.S. soldiers.
— source commondreams.org | Aug 15, 2021