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OK, this might be the most depressing thing I've read in a long time -- What could $456 billion buy? It's just a simple comparison of the cost of the Iraq War to various other things we could've spent the money on. Obviously there's a fair quantity of speculation and fluffiness in these numbers and analysis, but apparently, the upside is that we could have fed and educated the world's poor for FOUR YEARS and then, with the leftover cash, converted every car in America to run on ethanol. Thereby making much of the struggle for control over the Middle East irrelevant. Not to mention the fact that feeding and educating the poor could potentially have taken most of the fire out of the jihadist movement.
Again, obviously, totally speculative. But it does make you realize that there are better things we could spend our money on, no?
