Statistics

There's a joke that 43% of statistics are useless, as well as the oft quoted Twain reference, but nonetheless here are some numbers:

200,000: number of troops needed to restore order in Afghanistan, according to RAND via USA Today
94,000: number of security employees in Afghanistan today (28,000 coalition forces, 66,000 Afghani police)

57; 679; 206 - amount of aid dollars per person in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Iraq respectively.

Source: Center for American Progress