$860 billion.
Almost as much as all the sub prime slime has cost us, but at least you can say with the Iraq war it was for a good cause.
Warning - All knee jerk pacifist rhetoric will be summarily ignored as we've heard your side for the past 8 years and I'm sure nothing new will be said.
Nobody wants the Iraq war to be a good cause more than me. But that's a weird way to measure cost. I mean, you're not including how the subprime crisis has killed so many thousands and thousands of Iraqis in their markets and left so many US soldiers KIA and maimed and their families wrecked and harmed US global prestige and credibility...
ReplyDeleteBro, I really enjoyed your Economics Supperclub show, but you seem to have started to lose your objective point of view. Being against the war in Iraq isn't pacifist. Iraq didn't attack us. I'm all for the war on terror and catching and eliminating bin laden and co, but to invade a sovereign nation on false pretenses, to engage in nation building is not American.
ReplyDeleteDo you really believe that the war in Iraq is a positive NPV investment?
No, you're right, it's a negative NPV. But it wasn't an investment as much as it was insurance or preventative medicine. I'm one of those fools that still believes we toppled a regime that deserved toppling to provide a close irresistable target for Al Qaeda and radical muslim nutjobs to attack and get their asses handed to them.
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