AFGHANISTAN AND LOST TREASURE

ON THE EVE  

OF SEPTEMBER 11 

From a photograph of a CBS report on Afghanistan, close-captioned 

NOW A DECADE-LONG WAR 

IN AFGHANISTAN 

On the eve of September 11 + ten years, Reuters reported that "For the nearly $450 billion Congress estimates the U.S. alone has spent waging war there, every Afghan man, woman and child could have been handed $15,000. That sum is 10 years' earnings for an average Afghan, according to U.N. estimates."