costs of war

$1,600,000,000,000

Will buy (approximately):

• 80,000,000 international adoptions
• 26,000,000 new houses to shelter the homeless and the poor
• 70,000,000 four year scholarships to public universities
• 90,000,000 new deep water wells for communities that don't currently have access to fresh, safe, clean drinking water

OR

• 2 million new refugees
• 84,000 civlian deaths.
• 106,000,000 new CBU 87 cluster bombs (5% of whose bomblets will fail to detonate, creating thousands of new civilian casulties in the years and decades to come)
• the salary of ATK chief executive Daniel J. Murphy for the next 160,000 years (of course he's actually seen a big chunk of that $1,600,000,000,000)