The money hole of Iraq-Afghanistan

The total cost of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq from 2001 to the present: $1.125 trillion.

(The  National Priorities Project Cost of War site breaks that down all sorts of ways -- per person or taxpayer in the U.S., per state, per city.  Ashfield, the tiny town I once lived in in western Massachusetts -- pop. about 1,800 -- is in for $9.4 million.)

Imagine what else we could have done with that money!  I mean it: let's imagine.