Obama’s Plan Will Cost $30B

No shouts of “you lie” this time: “Afghanistan is not lost,” President Obama told cadets at West Point on Tuesday night as he announced his plan for 30,000 new troops in Afghanistan and to begin a withdrawal by July 2011. "If I did not think that the security of the United States and the safety of the American people were at stake in Afghanistan, I would gladly order every single one of our troops home tomorrow." The new strategy, according to the Post, will cost at least $30 billion and will tip the total cost of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq over $1 trillion. General Stanley McChrystal praised Obama’s plan, saying “The Afghanistan-Pakistan review led by the President has provided me with a clear military mission and the resources to accomplish our task.”