Your depressing fact of the day
by Sam Roggeveen
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13 October 2009 7:59AM
From Steve Clemons:
The cost of America's military effort in Afghanistan is $65 billion per year -- and the price tag will probably go up when a new strategy is announced by President Obama.There have been many hundreds killed and thousands wounded there.
But what gets me is that the entire GDP of Afghanistan is just $22 billion. We are spending -- just on the military and not counting allied force commitments or NGO and other non-military aid -- more than three times the entire GDP of the country. And we have been losing this war.
