New strategy in Afghanistan will cost U.S. $ 30 billion in 2009

Implementing the new strategy in Afghanistan, providing an increase of troops in this country of 30 thousand people, cost the U.S. in 2009 to 30 billion dollars.

“Our new strategy in Afghanistan will cost us, according to rough estimates, at $ 30 billion” war “spending this year, and I will work closely with Congress to get this funding, while we work to reduce the budget deficit, – said the U.S. president Barack Obama, speaking before the Military Academy at West Point.

However, he admitted that in the past few years, the U.S. lost the balance between sufficient defense capability and state of the economy. Obama said he would refer to “military” spent more cautious and not allow unnecessary expense, even in a costly increase troops in Afghanistan.

“Right now, we simply can not afford to ignore the cost of fighting that we do. When I took the Oval Office, the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are approaching a trillion dollars. I took it a rule to talk about budgetary spending openly and honestly … I recognize that the war against extremism and violence can not be completed quickly and will not be easy, “- said Obama.