So is the war in Afganistan over then?

[Moscow Mule]

Pakistan is too nuked up to have a proper war with, so it has to be Afghanistan.

We get to bomb Pakistan without really starting a war and killing all the nasties to make us feel safe in our beds.

[PAH]

Not to mention the Russian debacle.

They obviously watched Rambo III and thought it was going to be a piece of piss.

Do they need to worry that the cost of throwing expensive missiles at stuff (as they are now doing in Libya) soon adds up to trillions of dollars?

Especially if it's true that private investment in weapons suppliers is popular with the yank politicians.

[doodab]

Do they need to worry that the cost of throwing expensive missiles at stuff (as they are now doing in Libya) soon adds up to trillions of dollars?

It is arguably a positive thing. That money goes to the indigenous defence industries and results in jobs and technological progress. For example, some of the better known consequences of defence spending in the US and UK include the internet, carbon fibre, advances in aluminium and titanium alloys and techniques for machining them and so on.