{"id":118,"date":"2003-09-09T12:34:15","date_gmt":"2003-09-09T17:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/balance-and-focus\/"},"modified":"2003-09-09T12:34:15","modified_gmt":"2003-09-09T17:34:15","slug":"balance-and-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/balance-and-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"balance and focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Afghanistan<\/strong>:  647, 500 sq km \/ 28.7 million residents \/ $19 billion GDP &#8211; <strong>$800 million<\/strong> new money requested.<br \/>\n<strong>Iraq<\/strong>:  432, 162 sq km \/ 24.7 million residents \/ $58 billion GDP &#8211; <strong>$20,000 million<\/strong> new money requested.<\/p>\n<p>according to a white house <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2003\/09\/20030908-1.html\">fact sheet<\/a> issued with the president&#8217;s statement on sunday, &#8220;The Administration will request $20 billion to help secure Iraq&#8217;s transition to self-government and create the conditions necessary for economic investment and investment.&#8221; and &#8220;The request will seek an additional $800 million to address some of the most critical remaining security and reconstruction needs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>to be sure, we&#8217;ve already spent considerable money (the fact sheet suggests some $1.8 billion from american tax payers and $5 billion from other nations) fixing afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>does this make sense?  isn&#8217;t afghanistan where the actual terrorist training camps were (are?)  isn&#8217;t afghanistan a more &#8220;clear and present&#8221; threat? &#8211; especially since we haven&#8217;t found any weapons of mass destruction in iraq?  doesn&#8217;t every dollar we spend in afghanistan have a greater net effect?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan: 647, 500 sq km \/ 28.7 million residents \/ $19 billion GDP &#8211; $800 million new money requested. Iraq: 432, 162 sq km \/ 24.7 million residents \/ $58 billion GDP &#8211; $20,000 million new money requested. according to a white house fact sheet issued with the president&#8217;s statement on sunday, &#8220;The Administration will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}