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that's the amount the NY times reports we spent on our saga in Afghanistan. Think of how that money could have been spent here in the U.S. - the funds that could have gone to helping those in need. To strengthening our safety net, to providing full and complete health insurance to everybody. To provide rent subsidies or - dare I say it - affordable housing. Instead it was spent on folly.