I believe you forgot the 'minor' detail of providing security for the tanker truck along the way. Let's see, you might need several humvees, a few high speed troop carriers, well paid crew & provisions & maybe even some type of insurance or cash payment to compensate the family of whoever gets killed along the way.
400 per Gallon? Which Third-party was contracted by the Pentagon to deliver fuel? Halliburton? And 25,000$ shovels. And 100,000$ tents... Iraq/Afghanistan is feeding trough for Defense Contractors. Lobby half of Congress to go to war, and make Billions overnight! War is a Business.
Powell warned of âterror-industrial complexâ in 2007 interview By David Edwards and Muriel Kane Friday, October 16th, 2009 -- 10:19 am "What is the greatest threat facing us now?" Powell asked. "People will say itâs terrorism. But are there any terrorists in the world who can change the American way of life or our political system? No. ... The only thing that can really destroy us is us. We shouldnât do it to ourselves, and we shouldnât use fear for political purposesâscaring people to death so they will vote for you, or scaring people to death so that we create a terror-industrial complex." When Powell delivered a speech at the University of Oklahoma a short time later, campus reporters asked what he had meant by his remarks, and he replied, "We're spending an enormous amount of money on homeland security, and I think we should spend whatever it takes. But I think we have to be careful that we don't get so caught up in trying to throw money at the terrorist and counter-terrorist problem that we're essentially creating an industry that will only exist as long as you keep the terrorist threat pumped up.
Outsource the wars to the Taliban - their per capita costs are lower than the North Koreans Any percieved conflict of interest will be resolved by assasination
And 25,000$ shovels. And 100,000$ tents... -------------------------- Voila, fully burdened costs. The media inflames outrage with $100 hammers and 5k coffee pots but there ya go, the fully burdened cost.
Whenever the conflict getting intensified, the price of AK-47 would rise, other time these thing cost much less. Once Afghanistan out of center of international attention, everything will return normal. No one will care it, just look at history of Vietnam conflict.
This is a missed opportunity to end the war. I have a three point plan to end the war and revitalize the local Afghan economy. First we need to import as many donkeys into Afghanistan as possible. We need to flood the county with a mass donkey invasion. Next we need to pay the Afghans to bring us the gas. They will have an excess of transportation and at 300 bucks a gallon we should have little problem getting near full employment out of this. Next we need to bring in new mini malls. Service every vice and need the Afghans don't even know they need. The next part is important we need an even bigger add campaign to encourage the Afghans to spend there new money like drunken sailors, sort of like what Americans did borrowing of there homes. That should work