Linda Bilmes, a Harvard expert on financing war, expects the #Iran #war to cost the USA more than $1 trillion. Opinion columnist Nicholas Kristof has ideas on how to use the money to make lives better instead of to destroy lives. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/opinion/iran-war-cost.html?unlocked_article_code=1.U1A.etB8.hJry2wpOQhiO&smid=nytcore-ios-share