At least 37 million people have been displaced as a result of wars fought by the U.S. since Sept. 11, 2001 — more than from all conflicts since 1900 except for World War II, according to a report from Brown University out Tuesday.
Details: The report counts people who have been displaced in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, the Philippines, Libya and Syria. It doesn’t include millions of people who were displaced in other countries where the U.S. has had smaller counterterrorism operations.
Worth noting: Some 25.3 million people have returned to their home countries or regions since the conflicts began.
What they’re saying: “It tells us that U.S. involvement in these countries has been horrifically catastrophic, horrifically damaging in ways that I don’t think that most people in the United States, in many ways myself included, have grappled with or reckoned with in even the slightest terms,” David Vine, an anthropology professor at American University and the lead author of the report, told the New York Times.
Here’s the NYTimes link as well
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