Priorities

This week, we celebrate the fourth anniversary of the war in Iraq. Take a look at these calculations:

The newspaper today states one minute of war in Iraq costs US$380,000. A calculation made by Joseph Stiglitz, a US Nobel Prize-winning economist. This is almost double the cost of the Vietnam War.

According to WFP, the UN's food aid organization, it costs US$0.19 to feed a child for a day.

Combining those two figures, one minute of war in Iraq would feed 2,000,000 children for a day. One day of war in Iraq would feed 20,000,000 children for a year. And we've been at this for four years now.

(from The Road To The Horizon Blog)