$20 billion on what?!
Among The Costs Of War: $20B In Air Conditioning
The amount the U.S. military spends annually on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan: $20.2 billion.
That's more than NASA's budget. It's more than BP has paid so far for damage during the Gulf oil spill. It's what the G-8 has pledged to help foster new democracies in Egypt ( Read more... )
The amount the U.S. military spends annually on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan: $20.2 billion.
That's more than NASA's budget. It's more than BP has paid so far for damage during the Gulf oil spill. It's what the G-8 has pledged to help foster new democracies in Egypt ( Read more... )
Wars are money pits, and we need to get out of these various wars--like right now. If not now, deadline next year absolutely.
We have infrastructure at home that could use 20 billion and more.
We have a whole country- the US of A, that has untapped personal resources that could use some nurturing and enabling and empowering.
We are, as Shawn Colvin would put it, in the need of "a few small repairs" ourselves.
And that commander who has to keep a 7 day work week, with the risky convoys and the groundhog week of fighting and starting from the same spot over and over again?
"Fall back" sounds good to me.
Social services while making war on part of the society you are working on, war that helps make more ragged and bedraggled the fabric of culture, family and society -- thereby needing more social services...seems like a vicious circle.
Hmmm.
Sounds like the Drug War, too.
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