As we saw in Vietnam and elsewhere, what begins as relatively minor involvement in a proxy conflict overseas can gradually evolve into full-fledged warfare that costs billions of dollars and thousands of lives as the sunk-cost fallacy takes over. We can’t give up now. We’ve already invested too much.
Just a Little More War Please
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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I propose a (slightly more) cynical stance. The cost to outfit, feed, clothe, transport, shelter, and bury a soldier is enormous, and someone in the MIC makes a profit at each stage. Won’t someone think of all those shareholders who depend on large wars with many wounded and killed soldiers to ensure comfortable retirements? After all, as a couple tens of millions of boomers have languidly sighed, “Hey. I got mine, and I deserve the best of everything. Screw Gen X and the Millennials and the rest of that riff-raff. I own four homes and got a pension. I waited tables to pay the $600 a semester at college cost. These youngsters blow their stagnant wages on avocado toast and Starbucks. Now to vote tax cuts so I can golf, just like Donald Trump, who I super-duper hate.”