The news media could do a much better job of helping us to understand the costs of war.

For this column, anyway, I'll set aside the horrendous toll that war takes in terms of death, physical injuries and human grief. Instead, let's focus on financial consequences when $2 billion of taxpayer money goes toward U.S. military expenditures every day.

The financial burdens of the warfare state are ones we shoulder in silence, with little media coverage or political comment. Yet it wou ...

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