Back to square one

Back to square one
Washington DC (UPI) Jul 30, 2014 - The Iraq and Afghan wars have cost the U.S. taxpayer upwards of $2 trillion thus far - and the meter is still running in both theaters. In Afghanistan, after 12 years of combat operations and the costly training and equipping of a 360,000-strong army, and the loss of 2,800 U.S. killed in action, Taliban, the enemy we went in to defeat, is making steady gains around the capital. ... morehttp://www.spacewar.com/reports/Back_to_square_one_999.html