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Commentary: International Relations |
Cost Benefit Ratio of War
by alkahest
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Current rating: 0
20 Apr 2003 |
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Ask yourself, "Why have we heard no response from the Bush administration regarding the certainty that this war will increase the probability of terrorism against the U.S.?" Answer: They don't have to respond because they have already established that terrorism as a given. Therefore . . . |
Because there has been no interdiction across the Iraqi borders since the beginning of this crisis, this war has increased the probability of terrorism. Biological weapons are quite small, such as anthrax, less than a pound of which could kill tens of thousands, and remain in our soil for generations. Other small things like the formula for a chemical weapon, could be transported by a very few people out of Iraq and hidden in any one of dozens of other countries.
When terrorism strikes again, press secretaries and the media will say that it was going to happen anyway, war or no-war, and that it justifies the next front in this war, such as Syria. Therefore, to the “planners”, whatever deaths result from increased terrorism here in the U.S. are already a given, and the only question that remains, as with other innocent deaths that are already accepted as a justifiable effect of war, is what/who is to be “benefited” as a result of all of this death. |
