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Thread: What would you do with $1.6 trillion?
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[quote=LEONARDO,255657]"The economic costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are estimated to total $1.6 trillion" "According to World Bank estimates, $30 billion would provide a year of primary education for every child on earth while $54 billion a year would eliminate starvation and malnutrition globally by 2015" $1.6 trillion. An astronomical number, indeed! I felt no surprised at all when I read the "incredible number". It is the usual way that the rich US handled their money. Canadaguy, there is a theroy in the discipline of International Relation: national interest is on the top priority of all interests. The hidden meaning of the theory is that there is no charity between countries. Undeniably, some charitable deeds occurred every now and then, especially when disasters happened, relief funds flooded in. I am not going to say that all the countries who perform charitable deeds have some shady motives. However, some charitable deeds are for show. Don't expect that $1.6 trillion could be used to do something nobler. If the money was not abused to invade Iraq and Afghanistan, if might be spent (as Griz326 said) "invading Canada to take your oil fields and diamond mines". (I am joking). Anyway, the politicians' political motive is too complicated for us to grasp. $1.6 trillion can make a difference for countless ones who lived on the edge of poverty and starvation! $1.6 trillion can make numerous kids who who lived in the slums well fed and better educated. In fact, $1.6 trillion can achieved so many noble ideals that I can not list all of them here.( Perhaps, it is unnecessary). [/quote]
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