Hey Can We Have $80 Billion for Afghanistan?

From the Washington Post:

Since the invasion of Afghanistan eight years ago, the United States has spent $223 billion on war-related funding for that country, according to the Congressional Research Service. Aid expenditures, excluding the cost of combat operations, have grown exponentially, from $982 million in 2003 to $9.3 billion last year.

and

"Afghan forces will need $4 billion a year for another decade, with a like sum for development," said Bing West, a former assistant secretary of defense and combat Marine who has chronicled the Iraq and Afghan wars. Bing said the danger is that Congress is "so generous in support of our own forces today, it may not support the aid needed for progress in Afghanistan tomorrow."


So the question running through my mind is what are we getting for our $303 Billion Dollars? Am I the only one who thinks it might be better to buy an alarm system rather than construct a castle with moat and drawbridge?

Here's a thought... take that $80 billion dollars and NOT spend it. Oh yeah it's Washington they have to spend it...hmmmm... I know!!!!! We could hire people to sit on the beach and watch for terrorists! It is just as wasteful but at least it would help the employment picture.