Just a Little More War Please

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.

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  • alex_the_tired
    October 12, 2022 8:55 AM

    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.”

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