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daenku32
2nd December 2009, 01:17 PM
Was listening to NPR on way to work today, and they mentioned how the Afghan military cannot match the pay of Taliban.

Made me look up a factoid. The average annual wage in the country is about $300 a year. Since the country has 12 million people, we could hire half the country for measly $1.8 billion a year.

What I've wondered is why doing this would be considered "socialist" or "communist", but a military operation that costs 10x as much is the "capitalist" way of doing things.

quixotecoyote
2nd December 2009, 01:24 PM
Cheaper than that, even, since we'd only be hiring fighting types.