The Cost of a Few Weeks of the Iran War Would Have Saved a Million Lives Via USAID

The Cost of a Few Weeks of the Iran War Would Have Saved a Million Lives Via USAID

There’s only so much money to go around, and hard decisions about fiscal prudence must always be made by the U.S. government … until there’s an opportunity to blow billions of dollars on spending related to the military, that is. As we all know as Americans, any talk of what costs the nation can and cannot “afford” is instantly silenced as soon as the opportunity for a quagmire in the Middle East presents itself. Still, it bears highlighting jus…