The sentence
“In terms of human cost and monetary cost, Clinton spent a lot of American blood and treasure.” was preceded by use of more in previous sentence. I don’t know if its the alliteration, reader exhaustion, or just that it would flow with tone of your post but I inferred a lot “MORE”. I suspect others may have also.
BTW, that policy was ignored/condoned by voters since they were too busy watching Padres getting whuppped by the Yankees in 98.
