Veitnamistan Number of US military personnel killed in Afghanistan since 2001: 2,150 Number of US service members wounded in Afghanistan badly enough to go to hospital since 2001: 19,415 Current annual cost of keeping a US soldier in Afghanistan: $2.1 million Number of US troops now in Afghanistan: roughly 51,000 Annual average unemployment rate for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans 2002-2012; 10% (average annual unemployment rate for vets of previous wars: 6.3%) Afghan civilians killed in political violence or war 2006-2012: 14,728 Amount of money US has spent to rebuild Afghanistan: $100 billion Proportion of the $100 billion wasted or misspent or stolen or given to militants or not received by intended recipient: 85% Population of Afghanistan: 30 – 34 million Amount of US aid since 2001 per person: roughly $3,333 [pdf] Per capita annual income of Afghanistan: $470 Number of Taliban willing to run for elective office while there are US troops in that country: 0 Number of US and allied foreign troops killed by members of supposedly friendly Afghanistan National Army in 2012: 62 . (The number is much less this year [12], but only because joint operations were suspended for a long period). Number of women allowed by the election commission to run for president of Afghanistan in 2014: 0 Percentage of annual Afghanistan gross domestic product from the opium trade: 25% Percentage of the remaining 75% of the annual Afghanistan gross domestic product from foreign aid: 97%.
Posted on: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 23:38:56 +0000
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