Pentagon officials have submitted a new request for another $79.4 billion for “overseas contingency operations,” essentially to pay for the 2014 fighting of the Afghan War. The request is above and beyond the $526 billion the Pentagon is already seeking for 2014, which was supposed to include the war’s costs.
Requests for supplemental war funds are nothing new for the Pentagon, but the latest request comes in the context of a growing budget crisis in Afghanistan, with the 2013 “contingency funds” already burned through as costs continue to soar.
The Pentagon’s estimates for their costs have been much too low, as the “success” that is always supposed to be just around the corner in Afghanistan never pans out, and officials conceded in recent comments that the costs of the war may continue to rise “substantially” going forward.
Officials are bragging that the 2014 request is somewhat less than the 2013 version, but the reality is that with surge troops being withdrawn, the savings were supposed to be significant. Instead, the war continues as an all-consuming sinkhole for tax money, with no end in sight and the Pentagon’s best estimates inevitably falling far short.
Given they stellar job they're doing, heck give 'em a trillion.
Now what exactly is the American taxpayer (you know, those who actually pay taxes, not the tax cheating bastards like Apple) getting in return for that?
A police state!
I swear these people …WANT .. to destroy the USA when this never-ending BS….
that will accomplish Nothing
if you read over at mondoweiss you can read how the JFK assassination has enabled those behind it to continue their assault on the US
There must be 50 ways to leave Afghanistan,
"Just get on the bus, Gus; no need to discuss much"
"Just drop off the key, Lee; and set yourself free"
and so forth
There are approximately 16 million male afghanis. If we were to pay every one of them $20,000.00 to stay at home and do absolutely nothing for 5 years it would only cost us 160 billion dollars– give or take a thousand or so pallets of thousand dollar bills needed for bribes (Afghani officials) and pilferage (our own people). Congress would recognize and understand the principle instantly– after all they do almost nothing at all and are well paid by foreign and domestic lobbyists.
Brilliant!
Must be even more profit from Afghan heroine than I realized. Those inside the government(U.S.) must be getting very wealthy from the drug trade.