There is... no free lunch. The operating costs of the war in Iraq are now $12.5 billion a month; which rises to $16 billion if you include Afghanistan. Sixteen billion dollars is the annual budget of the UN and four times that of the WHO. It is more than three times what the US gives annually to Africa. It is two years' funding for the campaign to eradicate illiteracy worldwide. - Telegraph
NVDL: Now is probably a great time for Americans to be asking if they can actually afford to be occupying ANY other country. My guess is they care less about what they can afford and what they can militarily achieve. Which I prognosticate is the next phase of this crisis.
NVDL: Now is probably a great time for Americans to be asking if they can actually afford to be occupying ANY other country. My guess is they care less about what they can afford and what they can militarily achieve. Which I prognosticate is the next phase of this crisis.
clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk
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