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Comment by marcus_holmes

A Hellfire missile apparently costs $150K [0].

Given that it's apparently OK to launch one of these at a single suspected enemy informant, couldn't we have saved a lot of time, money and lives by just bribing the entire population of Afghanistan to not do things that the West doesn't like?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-114_Hellfire

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