OT: An Interesting Factoid

[pmulcahy11b]

For the money the US has spent in fighting the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, we could have built each citizen of those countries a $300,000 home -- and the powerplants and water facilities they would need for those homes. Makes you wonder if that would have made a better impression on those people...

Heard that on MSNBC, BTW.

[headquarters]

I remember the war in Jugoslavia in 1999.It costed 30 billion dollars app.5 Years later they had managed to raise 3 billion for peacetime reconstruction etc ..

I am not a big US war effort fan ,but the lack of planning for winning the peace has always baffled me.US victory is pretty much a foregone conclusion -but what then ?

I really hope things work out !

[cavtroop]

Thats unpossible.

28 million Iraqi's x 300,000 = 8,400,000,000,000 (thats 8.4 trillion)

now

28 million Iraqi's x 30,000 = 840,000,000,000 (840 billion), is much closer to reality (the cost was 673B when I just checked, just for Iraq)

Still, its an interesting point, as 30k is alot of moolah for someone in the 3rd world....

[kato13]

Originally Posted by cavtroop

Thats unpossible.
28 million Iraqi's x 300,000 = 8,400,000,000,000 (thats 8.4 trillion)

Another case of the media not being able to do simple math. How could that have gotten past even basic fact checking. Unless it was a pundit who would never expect someone to check.

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by kato13

Another case of the media not being able to do simple math. How could that have gotten past even basic fact checking. Unless it was a pundit who would never expect someone to check.

Hmmmm...it's also a case of me not doing basic math...damn that's embarrassing...

[kato13]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

Hmmmm...it's also a case of me not doing basic math...damn that's embarrassing...

When we were kids they would not have made that mistake. SO we trust sometimes when we shouldn't. No biggie.

Originally Posted by cavtroop

Thats unpossible.

28 million Iraqi's x 300,000 = 8,400,000,000,000 (thats 8.4 trillion)

now

28 million Iraqi's x 30,000 = 840,000,000,000 (840 billion), is much closer to reality (the cost was 673B when I just checked, just for Iraq)

Still, its an interesting point, as 30k is alot of moolah for someone in the 3rd world....

Something so simple isn't done by the oh so swayed masses. Good reality check, Troop.

[Cdnwolf]

Yes someone DID notice that I was referring to the TENT city behind the clunker. I was making a point that $30,000 may not seem like much to the people living in USA or Europe but to the people of wartorn countries like Iraq its a chance to start again.

[Targan]

Originally Posted by Cdnwolf

I was making a point that $30,000 may not seem like much to the people living in USA or Europe but to the people of wartorn countries like Iraq its a chance to start again.

Heck, $30k is a lot to me.