My plan for nation-building and war-ending...

Holy cow!

I just heard on TV that for each U.S. soldier sent to Afghanistan for one year, it will cost the United States $1 million. One million dollars for every soldier for one year! So, if Obama sends 30,000 more soldiers...oh, my goodness, what a tremendous waste of money. I have a better idea.

Instead of using that $1 million so that each good soldier can trudge around in sand, dodge bullets, and be put in danger, why not divide up the $1 million in a more effective war-ending way. Take some of it and buy off the Afghanistan warlords...yes, an annoying thought, but I have heard that we've been doing it anyway. Take some of it and raise the average incomes of impoverished Afghan citizens, so they don't want to join the Taliban for the tiny amount of money they offer. Take some of the money and build a new school there, to help employment, education, and the Afghan economy. Take some of the money and build a new school here, to help employment, education, and the American economy. And finally take some of the money and give it to the American soldier, with orders that he has to stay in America and spend it here, thereby helping the U.S. economy.

And copy that model for every other U.S. soldier, bringing them home, and better spending the billions of dollars.

There's my plan for nation-building and war-ending, and using the expense of $1 million per soldier per year in better, peaceful ways for the good of all. I say it is better than Obama's escalation plan and war expense.