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kleinbl00 · 3145 days ago · link · · parent · post: “There was no family detention in the United States, practically, a year and a half ago,” said Ginatta. “And now we’re in the thousands.”
- 40m people in Vietnam, 1968 - $352B spent on Vietnam War Call it 1964 to 1972, since it was sort of open-ended on both sides, and it's eight years. Over that period, we spent $1100 per year per inhabitant of Vietnam (north and south) "policing" North Vietnam. Could be worse - we're (arguably) at $50m per Taliban killed and during the Iraq War, we fired off 250,000 bullets for every enemy casualty. Dunno about you, but I've watched my friends pay $40 for a box of 20 5.56N. At $2/round, that's $500k per rebel just in FMJ.