The Very Serious Paradox

[Bravus]

http://bit.ly/2BSYNd

(feel free to post in Politics, but I suspect it might get moved there fairly quickly anyway)

[Bravus]

Heh, someone's paraphrase:

"“If my taxes are going to pay for someone’s healthcare and welfare, they better [dang] well be Iraqi and not American!”"

[jasd]

History 101. Non-political.

A coupla things: our armed forces, vis-à-vis the MidEast wars, had neither peer nor precedence; and, given that – we were in a position to kill and break – as armed forces ought. The war should have been wrapped-up years ago – were it not for the fact that the fifth column* with their long knives emerged amongst us; together with the pseudo-intelligentsia.

Our armed forces were effectively neutered, thenceforward functioning, primarily as a police force – nation building.

A major portion of the 3-4 trillion dollar$ mentioned in the above-linked blog, per the Washington Post, were secondary, tertiary, etc -tier costs translating to continuing ‘costs to society’, ie,

monies ‘wasted’ – resulting in fewer monie$ available for special schools with fewer worthy students receiving extraordinary education – resulting in a dollar loss to society... [/exaggerated example]

We forget that Saddam vowed to fund any/all terrorist acts against America. That, however measured, is a declaration of war. Ipso facto, a reason for national expenditure

that is lacking re other issues.

We’ve had a recent statesman and an ideologue at 1600 Penn Ave apropos Iraq and A-stan. [/kidding, sorta]

*our own Int’l Bolshevik