JFC, these 3-4 never ending wars and mega-embassies are going to kill us

[Taverner]

http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/11/stimulus-package-kabul

One night in May 2007, I was nattering on at the dinner table about reports of a monstrous new US embassy being constructed in Baghdad, so big that it put former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's grandiose Disneyesque palaces to shame. On 104 acres of land in the heart of the Iraqi capital (always referred to in news reports as almost the size of Vatican City), it was slated to cost $590 million. (Predictable cost overruns and delays—see F-35 above—would, in the end, bring that figure to at least $740 million, while the cost of running the place yearly is now estimated at $1.5 billion.)

Fucking A - what the hell are we thinking????

At a time when cities can't even pay their cops and firemen, we are blowing BILLIONS on mega embassies, pipelines that cost $400 a gallon to maintain - all to prop up folks who don't even like us.

Where's the pay off?

What do we, any of us, gain from this?


And now we're off to Yemen...and probably ready to turn them into another client state

Pax Americana - a joke really...