How to spend 3 trillion dollars on war in under 3 minutes

If the mass slaughter won't deter Barack Obama from escalating the war in Afghanistan, will the scale of the financial cost give him pause for thought?

This is the current audit of death in Iraq and Afghanistan:

If this won't deter Barack Obama from escalating the war in Afghanistan, will the scale of the financial cost give him pause for thought?

In under three minutes this film shows how the cost of the Bush/Obama wars is heading for 3 trillion dollars.

Much of Afghanistan's population lives on around $1 dollar a day.

Average monthly earnings for adults are around $30. Life expectancy in Afghanistan is 46 years. A working life is around 30 years, so lifetime earnings are in total $10,800.

Three trillion dollars divided among the people of Afghanistan (population 28 million) and Iraq (population 31 million) would give every man, woman and child 51,000 dollars.

In other words, it would raise the standard of living five-fold for every Afghan.

Escalating a war that is pointless and unwinnable? Or helping lift out of poverty everyone living in Afghanistan -- the world's second poorest country? Which would really be "change we can believe in"?