That would be enough to move America's budget to surplus by 2013 without any new austerity programme.The same conditions of instability that produced the post-war system of repression are again at work.
For the foreseeable future, Iraq will be preoccupied with consolidating political control and rebuilding its economy, shattered after six years of war and decades of repression before that.
A new wave of repression began a year later.
The United Nations estimates that some three million Afghan refugees have fled the country because of civil war, the repression of the Taliban and a three-year drought.
The pauperisation of huge parts of the developing world through so-called globalisation, the earth-shaking effects of war, repression, separatist violence and counter violence, the allure of the filthy rich west viewed from the dustbowls and rubbish-tips of shantyvilles outside our fortress, are creating a swell of millions of would-be immigrants.
"Dr. King sought to shine a light of justice against those dark chapters of war, repression and racism, our candles symbolize that light".
As burkas come off and salons closed by the Taliban reopen, one consequence of two decades of war and repression is becoming poignantly clear: Afghan women have held on to their desire to look beautiful, but they face a woeful shortage of beauticians.
You would be wrong, though, to associate the end of war with the end of repression.
From South Africa to Bosnia, Rwanda to Latin America, he writes of the human cost of repression, war and mass murder.Then he asks a difficult question: how can justice best be done?
