That just seems like a real lot of money, or supplies, or whatever.
$5 million? Yeah, I would OK that for a troop. Speaking hypothetically, of course. This particular troop—not so much.
$5 Billion? Nope. Too much. And not because a US Soldier is not worth bringing home, but you can only imaging where that money is going. Nothing good will come of that.
How many decent surface to air missiles will that buy? How many car bombs? Dirty bombs? Bio Weapons?
Nope, $5 Billion is too much.
gotta Kill grandma so we can send 5 Beeelion to the Taliban...