I heard early on in this campaign (dont know the source, or indeed whether it is accurate..but here goes)
It was said, that if you BOUGHT all the Poppy fields in Afghanistan, for a reasonable sum of money..ie: kept the farmers happy...made it all into Morphine..and GAVE it to the third World...it would still cost less $ than fighting this war.
Seems the only real winners in any war...are the despicable, fat cat Arms manufacturers.
Let's face it..it's a very lucrative business, which feeds on the suffering of millions...I realise of course, that we need Arms to defends ourselves...but we can only stock so many....so these ignoble bastards in suits, must rub their hands together with Glee, when a 'conflict' or 'Regime Change' (or Westerner's Jihad) as I prefer to call it occures
I only hope it's their children who get blown up with a IED