Eight years ago today, the United States invaded Afghanistan.

Clip from a new documentary by Robert Greenwald, “Rethink Afghanistan.”

Essay by Tariq Ali on the war on Afghanistan as the “good war.”

Factoids:

It costs $775,000 dollars a year to field a single soldier in Afghanistan.

So far the US has spent $185 billion dollars.

The projected cost by the end of the decade, including indirect “hidden” (i.e. social) costs is $1 trillion.

Taxpayer money allocated to the war has cost the state of California over $21 billion.

Nobody really knows how many Afghan civilians have been killed so far. A likely estimate is 30,000. This does not include those maimed, orphaned, widowed, or displaced who number in the millions.