$400 a gallon

The Pentagon recently released information that the cost required to transport fuel into Afghanistan is roughly $400 for every gallon of fuel. For shipping, trucking, airlifting, paying protection money to local tribal leaders for safe passage, to the actual fuel costs, it's easy to see how these costs escalate.
And the New York Times recently released information that it costs an estimated $1 million dollars every year to support each and every soldier in the Middle-East. There is obviously some overlap because fuel would be included in a soldier's cost... but that's still a whole lot of money. Goodbye economic crisis if this money got spent in the states rather than in Iraq.
Disheartening when you see top military officials stepping down because they believe the war is unwinnable.