What Would Afghan Spending Buy at Home?

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What Would Afghan Spending Buy at Home?
by Russ Baker | June 5, 2014 - 7:48am

Most of the stories headlining how President Obama plans to cut troops in Afghanistan as part of his planned exit from that country have not bothered to provide numbers on U.S. military spending there.

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Here are a few other comparative statistics: (numbers vary, of course, from year to year)

-$20 billion is what the U.S. government budgeted for 2013 to subsidize often-struggling farmers

-It’s four-fifths of what we spend for science, ...