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re: Cost effectiveness
Robert — (archived)

(Seems like we're at the end of one of those threads where we end up slapping each other around like punchdrunk fighters. I'm almost ready to give up in exhaustion; what about you?)

I didn't say we weren't doing anything in Afghanistan. I'm just wondering if we couldn't be doing more, based on reports that Al Qaeda and Taliban remnants seem to have free run of northwest Pakistan.

Nor did I advocate invading Pakistan. I clearly said that we might think about going into the northwest outlaw territories where we know the bad guys are hiding, and get them. In that we might even have the support of Pakistan, after a little arm-twisting.

[Dragging my weary ass one more time into the breach] I also never said that continuing a while longer containing Iraq would be without cost. The issue on the table is relative costs, tradeoffs between an immediate invasion of Iraq now versus putting the same resources into Afghanistan. Since we were already spending the resources on containing Iraq, those costs aren't part of the equation.

[hand cramping...head slumping...]

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