And what do we have for it?
"The cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts have grown to staggering proportions."
"The Bush Administration was wrong about the benefits of the war and it was wrong about the costs of the war. The president and his advisers expected a quick, inexpensive conflict. Instead, we have a war that is costing more than anyone could have imagined.
"The cost of direct US military operations - not even including long-term costs such as taking care of wounded veterans - already exceeds the cost of the 12-year war in Vietnam and is more than double the cost of the Korean War."
Joseph Stiglitz was chief economist at the World Bank and won the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics in 2001. Linda Bilmes is a lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
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"The three trillion dollar war."
The whole thread (55 posts)
- "The three trillion dollar war."
- The last paradigm shift: "The victory won't be worth the money."
- O come on. We've been giving you crud about the cost since...
- Paradigm shifts suck, don't they?
- You're stuck too.
- No, its about a lot more than the money, its about the cost...
- you didnt answer the question: 'was it worth it'? (n/t)
- Policial Progress was not a goalpost shift.
- re: there's not one of them that isn't almost identical to something that could have been written a year ago. Maybe two.
- You're stuck too.
- Who said anything about victory?
- Learn your history
- WW II .........Last Proper WAR
- Rope-a-dope
- re: Rope-a-dope
- Our tactical successes have yielded no strategic benefits.
- NEWSFLASH!!!NEWSFLASH!!!NEWSFLASH!!!
- Well, you certainly got the "nobody cares" right.
- I know who Cordesman is, as well I know what the CSIS is.
- re: I know who Cordesman is, as well I know what the CSIS is.
- MAYBE, when trying to determine a group' s bias, you should look at more than their own site and a wikipedia entry they wrote...
- time required to read gbaikie's worthless post: 10 seconds, search time to verify that csis Is a right wing think-tank: 1 minute 35 seconds, showing- yet again- that gbaikie is an unthinking politica…
- re: I know who Cordesman is, as well I know what the CSIS is.
- I know who Cordesman is, as well I know what the CSIS is.
- Well, you certainly got the "nobody cares" right.
- re: Rope-a-dope
- Rope-a-dope
- WW II .........Last Proper WAR
- The last paradigm shift: "The victory won't be worth the money."