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1. Taliban Field Strength: 35,000 troops
2. Taliban Killed Per Year by Coalition forces: 2,000 (best available information)
3. Pentagon Direct Costs for Afghan War for 2010: $100 billion
4. Pentagon Indirect Costs for Afghan War for 2010: $100 billion
Using the fact that 2,000 Taliban are being killed each year and that the Pentagon spends $200 billion per year on the war in Afghanistan, one simply has to divide one number into the other. That calculation reveals that $100 million is being spent to kill each Taliban soldier.
Originally posted by nagabonar
.. since this will make the women there live more freely.
Originally posted by nagabonar
reply to post by Kailassa
So what is your point? that the cost of killing a Taliban soldier is even higher? I mean the enemy of NATO over there is Taliban. USA has declared war on terrorism and on the regime which was in power in Afghanistan before the invasion.
Originally posted by Kailassa
This fake war on terrorism is an excuse to trample down the liberty of Americans, by making them to afraid to object to big brother becoming able to do whatever it wants to them.
Originally posted by harryhaller
PS OP, your avatar is way eery ... well done!
Originally posted by Kailassa
Originally posted by nagabonar
reply to post by Kailassa
So what is your point? that the cost of killing a Taliban soldier is even higher? I mean the enemy of NATO over there is Taliban. USA has declared war on terrorism and on the regime which was in power in Afghanistan before the invasion.
My point?
America has no right to be there as 9/11 was orchestrated by a group of Americans and Israelis.
America created and armed the Taliban.
America is in Afghanistan for the opium, the oil pipeline and, possibly, the halfnium.