What Did We Buy With the $5 Trillion That the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars Have Cost Us?

``A Brown University political scientist estimates that as of 2016, The Iraq and Afghanistan Wars have cost the American taxpayers $5 trillion. That number isn't important when we consider the human cost: Some 7,000 US troops dead, 52,000 wounded in action; hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dead who wouldn't otherwise be, 4 million displaced and made homeless, etc.''