He just said it cost one million per year to keep a Soldier in Afghanistan for one year. He then went on to say that it was a low tech war and that the Military Industrial complex was not being served well. I clearly see that this guy is basically on TV to make living off the war, As so many people are on Cable TV. The thing that strikes me the most is it apparent that he thinks a million dollars a year is an OK cost figure for war support. Base pay for an E-1 who has made it through boot camp is around $1467.00 per month. about $17,604 per year. So there is roughly $982,000 dollars going into a black hole budget that we can never know. When you look at our war strategy from a historic view we are comparable to the British in the Revolutionary War. We are bringing all the luxuries of home to the battle field and at the same time Bankrupting the country and compromising our ability to fight a war against an enemy that has a standing army and can fight back.
I do not profess to be any expert on war or the Military. I do claim to be able to analyze a basic facts and determine when things don't add up. We lost 407,000 troops in World War 2 that is more than all the troops we've had in Afghanistan and Iraq combined. If it cost a million dollars per troop per year to fight a war and we need great numbers as we did in prior wars something will have to change. There is a fundamental problem with war profiteering and that is, the waste of fighting power lost in the profit that is siphoned off.
In the next Congress the republicans will go after Social Security benefits even for those who paid in more than they will ever take out. They will go after Medicare because it is easy to attack these programs as entitlements. There will be no mention of the Private Contractors who have taken over the Pentagon and now in effect run the Military and have looted the U.S. Treasury. It's not so much that we can change anything overnight, but let at least be honest about it.