So, how does Obama's war get paid for? Can we have an special tax on the wealthiest? Can

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14. I don't know, maybe they percieve your statement as absurd, here's an estimate:

A limited military response could end with just one series of attacks. But what then, if more force is needed? One option would be to establish a "no-fly zone" over Syria, preventing the Bashar Assad government from using its air power against rebel forces.


But in a letter last month to the Senate Armed Services Committee, General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chief of Staff, estimated it would cost $500 million to initially set up a no-fly zone, followed by expenses "averaging as much as a billion dollars per month over the course of a year."


Establishing a buffer zone to protect civilian populations in Syria could be even more expensive, according to the general, requiring a limited no-fly zone as well as U.S. ground forces. That would push the costs to over $1 billion per month. Other options, he said, are just as costly.


Clearly, none of this is cheap, even in a best-case scenario. In 2011, the Pentagon estimated the first few weeks of its operations in the multinational military intervention in Libya cost around $608 million. More than half of those costs went toward replacing weapons like the Raytheon (RTN -0.36%) Tomahawk missiles and Boeing's (BA -0.96%) Joint Direct Attack Munitions, the JDAM smart bombs, according to DefenseNews.com.


The 78-day air campaign in Kosovo, by contrast, cost the U.S. about $5 billion, although that amount also included peacekeeping and refugee assistance funds.

http://money.msn.com/now/post--what-would-a-strike-against-syria-cost

Note the original estimate for Iraq was 80 billion.

Estimates are now from 1.7 to 6 trillion.

So if we call it 3 trillion for Iraq based on an initial estimate of 80b.

And the estimate for Syria is 1 billion a month, but really it's 37.5 times that, and it lasts just 5 years.... let's just say this could cost us 2.250 trillion in the long term, assuming it doesn't devolve into WWIII.....