The United States currently spends about $10 billion a month in Afghanistan. If you figure $10 million a new school or a community college, that's one thousand new schools the U.S. could build every month. Or 12,000 schools a year.
With real unemployment in the United States still running over 16%, we need to ask ourselves: Should we spend our money on bombs, bullets, troops and airport runways in Afghanistan? Or should we spend the money at home to train our unemployed workers? And to build some bridges, tunnels and roads. Or should we reduce onerous taxes on employers, like payroll taxes?
Afghanistan got a new 11,500 foot airport runway, courtesy Uncle Sam. New York City could do with one. Maybe Chicago? Atlanta? You get the idea.
"Nation Building in the U.S. Not in Afghanistan."