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RobVG — (archived)

For whatever reasons, known or unknown to us, the Bush Administration has chosen Iraq as the next target in the War on terrorism. If we were to attack NK we would also be charged with the responsibility of protecting South Korea. There is no such obligation involved in the Iraqi situation. Better to deal with these problems in series than in parallel.

Regarding the opportunity cost, the sum total of all your cited costs means absolutely nothing if there is a successful WMD attack on one or more American cities. In essence, 9/11 was an isolated incident affecting a few city blocks in two cities. Those attacks nudged the economy over the edge of a long anticipated recession. It doesn’t take much imagination to see what would happen to the economy if we were attacked again in a much more devastating way.

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