$720 million a day. That’s what the American Friends Service Committee estimated as the cost of the Iraq war. That finding was published in September 2007; I doubt it’s exactly the same today. And we have to admit that the Quakers have an anti-war bias. But I don’t expect them to be grossly dishonest with numbers, even to support their views.

The Washington Post article that reported the finding stated, “The $720 million figure breaks down into $280 million a day from Iraq war supplementary funding bills passed by Congress, plus $440 million daily in incurred, but unpaid, long-term costs.”

Some accept that figure as the cost of “doing business” in the modern world.

Me, I can’t help but wish that Caesar put my tax dollars to better use.