Worth every penny.
What price freedom?
End entitlements to illegals and critically look at other entitlement programs for those who shouldn’t be drawing them and we can afford it.
We are at war, sacrifices must be made. If not, our way of life will be over all too soon.
9-11 cost us a trillion..
So do we wait around and lose 3 or 4 more trillion to terrorist... or do we spend a quarter of that on killing the son’s of bitches before they leave the desert?
(For those not all that familiar with economics, think of opportunity cost as the time and fuel lost when you've taken a wrong turn on a highway. It's not just that you have to come back to the same place where the error was made; you have also gotten no closer to your destination.)
Of course, if the money wasn't being spent on a war in Iraq the Congress would likely find something equally unproductive to waste it on.
Im sure Ron Paul would agree that what America needs is a popular cheap war....Perhaps we could pass a law that all future wars must last no longer than 18 months and the cost should be covered by product liscencing arrangements with major corporations.
Could. Yes, it conceivably could. But we cannot afford to lose this one.
what we should have done is confiscated every darn US dollar
that we found in Iraq when we invaded the damn place , and used that money to pay for the war initially.
I am sick of hearing how America cannot ‘afford ‘ to pay for
this fight , when every damn country on the planet is awash in our currency.....
Especially our enemies ! We should invade and take it all .
Ron Paul’s views on the WOT are no different than the far left. They are word for word.
I am sure the Paulites will enjoy having Hillary or Obama as their President, they are all the same as L Ron Paul.
If you want to BI*** about costs how about the Billions being spent supporting illegals and their is no end to the cost.
I didn’t see how much it would cost to lose this war.
Oh yeah, everything.
Why don’t we cut benefits to all of the illegals and drug addled welfare recipients; then we could pay for this war. Oh yes, make the Congress critters pay us back what they stolen from us.
freedom is not free.
How does that compare to the costs (and failure) of the "War on Poverty?"
There was a study done by a nationally recognized economic consulting firm and published in the NY Post that estimated the cost to the national economy of the USA from the 9/11 attack was $639,300,000,000, plus 2 million lost jobs.
And that says nothing about the 3000 lives snuffed out in a matter of two or three hours.
Personally, I would rather spend the money being proactive, fighting back and making their miserable rat-like lives as difficult and uncomfortable as possible, than spending it on clean up of destroyed buildings, lost lives, lost jobs and broken families.
How much would a nuclear bomb in midtown Manhattan cost?
Not Fighting the War Could Cost Us Western Civilization
(alternate headline)
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What is the effect of “entitlements”?
Iraq is atop 5% of the world's oil, and about one trillion cubic feet of natural gas, this without any exploration program for 35 years. It is estimated that Iraq's extraction technology is so antiquated that an upgrade (now in progress) to more modern tech will yield a 30% productivity gain, when compared with the pre-war extraction rate. Thirty percent of five percent may not sound like much, but with Iraq's dire need to pump oil for it's nascent economy, OPEC will be greatly debilitated when Iraqi crude comes fully online.
Our country uses 140 billion gallons of petroleum-derived fuel per year, so a mere 20 cent reduction in the price at the pump, by virtue of the added supply, would yield $28 billion per year to the American economy to help pay back the cost of the war. This is not to mention the cost of other petroleum derivatives, like plastic products.
Wars are fought on both strategic and psychological battlefields. The jihadis fully expected that we would come to Afghanistan, where they expected to defeat us there as they had the Russians. They surely never expected us to take out Saddam, and our presence in their midst has dealt them a severe psychological blow, such that they have been impotent to attack us again on our own soil. Can we attach an "opportunity cost" to what HASN'T happened, by virtue of the Iraq war?