After spending tens of billions of dollars, stretching its military readiness to the limits, two wars and a lengthy embargo that left a million dead, the United States has captured the former dictator of a country with a population roughly that of Texas, a size twice that of Idaho, military expenditures 0.36% those of the US, and a GDP roughly the size of the annual revenues of Sony and one-third those of Wal-Mart. The Washington Post devoted 16 pages to the incident.
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