VOL. XLVI

No 9

3-March-2003

IRAQ

US Cost Of Conflict In TheMiddle East Since 1956 Totals $3 Trillion, Says Stauffer

The cost of conflict in theMiddle East since the 1956 Suez Crisis has been estimated at some $3 trillion by Dr Tom Stauffer in a paper in Middle East Policy entitled The Cost of Conflict in the Middle East 1956-2002: What the US Has Spent.* The paper assesses the cost to the US of periodic oil crises; direct intervention in Middle East conflicts; attempts to reduce reliance on...