It’s the Foreign Policy, Stupid
The government is about to engage in a bipartisan expansion of the Army so we have enough troops to do even more of the things we shouldn’t be doing now. Chris Preble of Cato is the rare analyst willing to say, like the doctor in the classic joke, “Don’t do that.”
Comment by michael holloway —
April 2, 2007 @ 1:27 am
That’s the ticket!
Or another way to look at it – a way that makes sense of more file points than is popular to fit together – is that the Iraq war is a distraction.
My detractors might say,
“Distraction?! You horrible evil bastard! How can you say a war where upwards of a half a million people have died – is a distraction?â€
I point to the $715 Billion request by the Pentagon to fund the Global War on Terror; which is in fact a euphemism for Global Empire.
The distraction is costing a piddling 84 billion/year.