The fact is that the Libyan operation has been remarkably cost-effective. The direct costs of the Iraq war so far are about $1 trillion, 5,000 American troops’ lives and 10,000 Iraqi soldiers’ lives. The direct costs of the Libya operation so far have been less than $1 billion, about 0.1% of what has been spent on Iraq - and with no American military casualties and minimal Libyan deaths.
‘How the lessons of Iraq paid off in Libya’ by Fareed Zakaria in TIME
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