The assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific security affairs, Randall Schriver, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday that the U.S. will spend an estimated $45 billion on the war in Afghanistan this year, the Hill reports.I see that all of NASA gets by on just over $19 billion a year in its budget.
And there was another item up recently at Axios about how the Taliban and local farmers are getting back into opium poppies in a big way. (I wonder - is there no biological agent they can deploy to eat into their flowers? No particular beetle that loves poppy buds?)
Even the Air Force Times had a detailed story throwing doubt on the effectiveness of the recent strategy of bombing heroin labs in the country.
What a hopeless country. Trump and the rest of the world would be better off building a wall around it, rather than down Mexico way.
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