Punji Stuck?

Not to use the awful, defeatist "q-word" or anything, but USA Today makes a comparison of the cost of Iraq and Afghanistan to that of the V-word War and finds that we are in the ballpark at $60 billion per year.

The one big difference is that the American economy is much larger now than it was 35 years ago, so in theory we could spend much, much more before quitting and going home.