AMERICAN FREE PRESS. The Death Wish of the White Alliance.

If you’re angry about the mass immigration crisis in the West, a report by a leading Washington D.C. think tank will push you over the edge.

According to Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF), the U.S. Global War on Terror (GWOT), which began in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, has forced between 37 million and 60 million people in the Middle East and Africa to flee their home countries.

Many of these refugees then headed to Europe and the United States to escape the fighting ignited by the NATO Western Alliance.

With the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks taking place next month, it is important to acknowledge the extreme costs borne by the West as a result of the GWOT and the U.S. response to 9/11.

The Scourge of The Great Satan

The report conservatively estimates that eight of the most violent counterterror wars the U.S. government has engaged in since 9/11, in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, the Philippines, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen, have produced eight million refugees and 29 million internally displaced people.

Worst population displacement since World war II

The 37 million total displaced is more than those displaced by any war since at least the start of the 20th century, except World War II.

The report only goes so far as to detail the massive volume of people who have been forced to leave their cities, towns, and villages.

Europe in the migration crosshairs

We know, however, that the precipitous rise in immigration throughout Europe and the United States has been happening at the same time.

This is leading many to conclude that these violent, bloody wars led to tens of millions of immigrants, who are understandably angry over the destruction of their lives, flooding into the West.

The sheer extent of the migration over the course of the last two decades is shocking.

14.5 million migrants

In Afghanistan and Iraq alone, the total displaced population reached 14.5 million. This sum itself exceeds displacement in any war since the start of the 20th century except World War II.

Other major exoduses in the Middle East and Africa include 3.7 million displaced Pakistanis; 1.7 million displaced Filipinos; 4.2 million displaced Somalis; 4.4 million displaced Yemenis; 1.2 million displaced Libyans; and 7.1 million displaced Syrians.

While the terrorism caused by the GWOT forced millions from their homes, the death toll from the wars is not far behind.

The heartbreaking human toll

Brown University’s ‘Cost of War’ project concluded:  The post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, the most violent conflicts in which the U.S. government has engaged in the name of counterterrorism since Sept. 11, 2001, have taken a tremendous human toll.

Indirect deaths are estimated to be 3.6-3.8 million, bringing the total death toll, including direct and indirect deaths, to 4.5-4.7 million and counting.

Trump’s Wars

Trump’s war of choice against Iran, however, has worsened unrest in the Middle East significantly. It has forced millions of people across the region to head to the West for their own safety.

He seemed to understand that the costs of war should be measured in more than just dollars, but in the lives lost, but he never speaks on that topic anymore.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.)

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), on the other hand, has been clear-eyed about the full costs of the wars the United States fights and what it all means for the West.

‘I don’t think we fully measure the cost of war,’ Massie told a local newspaper last spring. ‘And I think, honestly, if we evaluated the cost more accurately, we’d be less inclined to engage in wars for other countries overseas where it’s not clear what our interests are here at home.’ Let readers know what you think

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