misplaced resources?

this is the sort of thing i hate to read in the morning...

News - Congress OKs US$87.5B for Iraq, Afghanistan... and "the bill includes $64.7 billion for U.S. military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. "

it stumps me, particularly when it is juxtaposed against the knowledge in my brain that:

"...we would be able to eradicate world poverty with merely 1 % of the world’s income." and that the world is now dangerously short of meeting the 2015 UN Millennium Development Goals for "universal primary education, halving world poverty, and reducing child deaths by two-thirds..and a whole list more.."

what's happening? :( so much suffering already and yet they add more...

here's a good article on "How to Eradicate Terrorism by Fighting Poverty"

why haven't the leaders in power realised that terrorism isn't going to go away just by killing the so-called "terrorists"?...