Make $, not War

I was reading an article in Newsweek about Afghanistan being Obama's Vietnam. There was no mention in the article of how much the war was costing America, but under one of the photos, there was a nice little caption: "70 percent of Afghans survive on about a dollar a day." So, I went online to find a few figures....

(1) the population of Afghanistan was 32,738,376 in 2008 (according to Wikipedia)

(2) the amount spent on war in Afghanistan in 2008 was 140 billion according to this chart I found.


If we do the math on this....

140,000,000,000 dollars / 32,738,376 people = 4,276.32 dollars per person EACH YEAR.

If we break that down on a per diem, we get....

4,276.32 dollars / 365 days = $11.71 for each person each day.

Our spending is going up higher every year, and as we kill off more of the population, we're spending more per capita.

What if we quit playing war and just handed that $11 to each Afghan citizen? What would happen then?

I figure we'd eliminate the terror threat, because who would bite the hand that feeds them? The quality of life would improve because there'd be less war, among other factors. We'd still be spending just as much, but it'd be humanitarian aid and not WAR.

Any other theories on the fallout of this scheme?