The cost to the US budget, however, is not the key issue, even though US public opinion is being primed to believe that money saved in Afghanistan will be spent at home. "Over the last decade we have spent a trillion dollars on war," President Barack Obama has said. "Now we must invest in America's greatest resource - our people."
This is less than honest. There are good reasons for ending the war, but that air conditioning money is not going straight into the pockets of the American poor. Given that the annual US deficit is 14 times the cost of the Afghan campaign, ending the war will not magically transform the federal finances.
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