$64,481.48 per person

[Miigwech]

Tell me if my math is wrong .......... the war's in Afghanistan and Iraq have cost the US taxpayers 3 Trillion dollars, so far. If we take the population of Afghanistan at the time of the US invasion in 2001, approx. 21,350,000 and add it to the population of Iraq at the time of the US invasion in 2001, approx 25,175,000 .... add them together and that equals 46,525,000. Divide that into 3 trillion dollars and I get, $64,481.46 we could have paid to every person in both countries to buy their loyalty to the United States. No war, no dead and wounded Americans and a booming economy in both countries. Just thinking.

[LiberalArkie]

1. I was telling people before they did anything in Afghanistan that it would be cheaper

just to airlift mobile homes with central air and build power lines etc than to fight a war there.

[Miigwech]

2. You were correct then

But no one listens to reason .... just listen to the thumping of the war drums

[LiberalArkie]

3. And better for the Afghans. History said we could not win. And it would move them

from the stone age into the modern era. Win Win. But being logical is never a hawks strong point.

[FuzzyRabbit]

4. Improving people's lives

does not make insanely high profits for the military industrial complex.

[KamaAina]

5. That is indeed the $64,000 question.