Is Osama a CPA?
I just heard an episode of a very interesting and intelligent mainstream radio show podcast called "To the Point", a show which covers a broad range of US political issues. I just heard something that made me laugh (in an extremely world-weary and sad way) and I had to post.
There has been a recent study done to cost out the war on terror. The people who had formulated the costing were assuming that all US troops were withdrawn by 2010, and costed the war up to that point. A TRILLION dollars. TWO TRILLION dollars if you add in such variables as loss of future potential of people wounded/killed during the war, increasing fuel price instability, impact on homeland security (ie lack of home guards around to help clean up the Katrina mess because they were all in Iraq) and ongoing costs of veterans (estimating that 250,000 people would be involved in the war up to 2010).
Just imagine, improbable as I know it is. Just imagine, that this war sent the US bankrupt. Osama's sides would be splitting. He would be still holed up in some cave in Afghanistan living the quiet accountant's life (But I want to be a lion tamer!*), co-ordinating the quiet accounting war. The US imploding on itself. The US owing so much money to China that they couldn't repay it, and China sending the liquidators in. Oh, the exquisitely gruesome irony.
*obscure reference to a Monty Python sketch
There has been a recent study done to cost out the war on terror. The people who had formulated the costing were assuming that all US troops were withdrawn by 2010, and costed the war up to that point. A TRILLION dollars. TWO TRILLION dollars if you add in such variables as loss of future potential of people wounded/killed during the war, increasing fuel price instability, impact on homeland security (ie lack of home guards around to help clean up the Katrina mess because they were all in Iraq) and ongoing costs of veterans (estimating that 250,000 people would be involved in the war up to 2010).
Just imagine, improbable as I know it is. Just imagine, that this war sent the US bankrupt. Osama's sides would be splitting. He would be still holed up in some cave in Afghanistan living the quiet accountant's life (But I want to be a lion tamer!*), co-ordinating the quiet accounting war. The US imploding on itself. The US owing so much money to China that they couldn't repay it, and China sending the liquidators in. Oh, the exquisitely gruesome irony.
*obscure reference to a Monty Python sketch
posted by Cathy at 10:25 pm
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