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Thus, after spending millions of dollars training people to be clandestine officers, taxpayers are having to pay them twice as much to return as rent-a-spies.
After the U.S. disbanded Saddam Hussein's military, in 2003, it spent twenty-six billion dollars training and equipping a new one.
Yet the unaccountable body has been financed by the United States, which annually spends millions of dollars training and equipping the secret police to fight drugs and potential spillover from Afghanistan.
Crest Communications, a Mumbai-based company, spent four years and a couple of million dollars training special-effects artists and building a 40-seat computer graphics studio for them.
The Afghan police and army are slowly giving way, despite the United States spending 13 years and tens of billions of dollars training those forces.
All along, however, I've had a bigger objection to spending tens of billions of dollars training a vast Afghan National Security Force.
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Your tax dollars trained that officer; dressed him in uniform; equipped him with weapons and technology.
Each service maintains a multibillion-dollar training system: bases, classrooms, instructors and so forth.
Sports leagues like the N.B.A., the N.F.L. and Major League Baseball are fairy-tale lands, an otherworld of packed stadiums, charter flights, multimillion-dollar training facilities, multimillion-dollar player contracts paid by multibillionaire owners.
And next season could ultimately proceed as scheduled, so most players will probably treat the rest of the off-season like any other — except, perhaps, for working out at their high school gyms rather than in multimillion-dollar training facilities.
Cameras clicked continuously inside the room, but outside, where the team's multi-million-dollar training facility – one of the finest in Italy – spread for acres, where transmission towers painted the national colours of green, white, and red stretched endlessly in the distance, it was quiet.
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