Solution and outcome: Bring our troops home, save lives and money. As the United Sates Secretary of State I’d advise the President to pull our troops out of Afghanistan. Obamas administration estimates that keeping 9,800 soldiers there at the end of 2105 would cost about twenty billion dollars, or 1.2 million dollars per soldier per year. We would be saving over $1 million per service member. Of course money is my main issue for making this decision, but we do have to think of the soldiers who have died in Afghanistan. About 1,834 have been killed, nearly 16,000 wounded. These are just the physical casualties, No one has thought of the mental state the troops are in after being in Afghanistan. Many of the troops come back with extreme