Letters to the Editor
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quibbling about numbers..
Nimrod Gently,
I don't mean to put you in the position of managing a quibble.. I'm just using this forum to point out that the $10B/mo and $3T total don't measure the same thing. $10B only measures salaries, basically, and ignores veteran care completely (as I see from your note).
My seconds major point was about *incremental* cost. What would the US GDP have been in 1960 if WWII had never happened? Clearly less - and for a lot of the world, like Japan and Russia, the war had its benefits.
Vietnam and Korean war returned zero for our investment.. I can't imagine 1980 would have looked very different whether or not we had them. Wonder where we might have been in 2020 if this hadn't happened.
If only we had some sort of Glimpse from Tomorrow.. some sort of all-knowing beacon from the Beyond.. hmm.