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On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 01:22:09 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 21:44:03 -0700, wrote:

On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:10:10 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:44:47 -0700, wrote:

There are a reported 150 suspected (mostly low level) terrorists in
Afghanistan and we have 150,000 people looking for them.
That is projected to be $1.8 trillion in 10 years.
Instead we are spending another couple hundred billion on other
adventures in the middle east and we are not even sure who the people
we are putting in power will turn out to be.

A couple of hundred billion or things other than the Iraq/Afg wars?
Huh? Where are you getting that number?

We are spent over $600m in a week in Libya and that is only one week
in one little war. Who knows how all of this will shake out and what
other wars we will end up in that area? Syria?, Yemen?, maybe even
an undesired outcome in Egypt?
The genie is out of the bottle over there, we have our fingerprints
all over it and if it all implodes we bought it.

It was more than 1/2 that as best I can see. We're not flying
missions.

The top 5 hits on google (news stories) peg it at $600-608B

What are you looking at?

You're claiming that it's currently costing us $600M? I'm assuming the
last was a typo. You know it's not costing us that much, although it
may have for one week.

That was what it cost with the AC130s and A10s. God only knows what
the predators and global hawks cost.

A lot of that cost is hidden in black CIA budgets but even the open
parts are in the US bases where they are controlled.

Uh huh... why not count the toll calls from the White House to the
Admiral on scene in the Med?