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Neither side has a strategy other than terrorizing the civilian population of the other side.
— Uri Avnery, peace activist and Tel Aviv resident, who says that young Israelis are so tired of wars breaking out with no resolution that they are beginning to whisper about emigrating.
$9.46 trillion
Cost to the world in 2012 of creating violence of various kinds and then attempting to contain and quell it, according to research by the Institute for Economics and Peace, reports the Pacific Standard. That’s 11% of gross world product. By contrast, the recent financial crisis cost just 0.5% of 2009 global output.
$1.4 million
Cost of one Tomahawk Land Attack Missile. Defense experts say a Syrian strike would be similar to the 2011 strike on Libya to oust Moammar Gadhafi, which cost the U.S. $600 million in the first few weeks of the campaign, according to defense news.
