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   From: Intelligent@savetheworldmsn.com   
      
   $5 Billion dangling carrot.   
      
   The former Afghanistan government was getting $5 billion already, but much of   
   it   
   military aid.  Switch it to humanitarian and industrialization aid, IF AND ONLY   
   IF, the Taliban agree to recognize human rights.  They could come to us with   
   this   
   deal, or we could come to them with it.   
      
      
   (This is in addition to the $50-$100 billion the U.S. was spending itself on   
   the   
   war effort there... somehow.  According to Brown University.  Did we pay for   
   all   
   of NATO?  $50Bill/10,000 NATO soldiers = $5,000,000 a soldier, per year?   
   https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/09/12/the-annual   
   cost-of-the-war-in-afghanistan-since-2001-infographic/?sh=3464d6fb1971   
   https://web.archive.org/web/20191008052643/https://www.thebalanc   
   .com/cost-of-afghanistan-war-timeline-economic-impact-4122493   
   https://web.archive.org/web/20191008000716/https://watson.brown.   
   du/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/2018/Crawford_Costs%20of%20W   
   r%20Estimates%20Through%20FY2019.pdf   
   )   
      
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