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By Bill Morris - AOL News(Oct. 27) -- The Pentagon has disputed a press report that it's now costing U.S. taxpayers an average of at least $50 million for every single Taliban soldier killed in the ongoing war in Afghanistan. The report, originally posted on the Afghan news website KabulPress.org, arrived at the $50 million figure by dividing the amount of money now being spent yearly on the war in Afghanistan -- about $100 billion -- by the number of enemy now being killed annually, estimated at 2,000. The Pentagon sees that as a specious calculation. "It is important that you understand that the simplified logic ...
Garry Wills Breaks Silence on Post-Election Dinner With Obama
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(July 29) -- Garry Wills, one of the nation's most respected historians, broke silence about a dinner he and eight other historians had with President Barack Obama more than a year ago, on June 30, 2009. The main discussion point was the futility of the United States' continued involvement in Afghanistan, which Obama has made the country's "longest war and what may turn out to be its most disastrous one," Wills writes in The New York Review of Books. Wills describes his contribution to the dinner: "When Obama said that he was surprised that the left was so critical of him, I said that it ...
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