Each U.S. Troop In Afghanistan Now Costs $2.1 Million
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Then show them the floor in the VA building that is collapsing from all the claims that have yet to be processed with some people waiting nearly a year to get help.
Congress should be forced to put aside $2 million for every recruit just like they force the post office to put money in a retirement fund for every employee, decades ahead before it is needed.
Then we'd see the true price of war. Of course this doesn't include the thousands of innocents killed in each native country.
The irony of Iraq is there are eminent economists who thought it was worth it.