Katrina vanden Heuvel: The Cost of War

Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel argues that Democratic candidates need to bring back the war as a campaign issue, and hammer away at the staggering economic, as well as human, costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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[smilingbob123]

Wow... well put, I didn't think about the costs in that manner, $20,000 for a family of four!

[getplaning]

The candidates aren't talking about the cost, because the cost isn't affecting them. All the presidential candidates are multimillionaires who have professionals managing their money for them. They have the tools to make money in an up or down market. The human cost has been kept hidden from Americans by the "embedded" media. The Pentagon learned their lesson in Viet Nam.

[KinglyNumbaOne]

This woman is a hyper-liberal fool; I have watched several videos of Ms. Heuvel and I can come that conclusion. She is so worried about people dying in Iraq, but the implication of abandoning the War on Terrorism, which she blithely advocates, would inevitably mean death to American citizens when al-Qaeda decide to strike us again.

Ms. Heuvel might want to try thinking through issues, as opposed to unthinkingly spewing pathetic liberal talking points handed to her by the Obama White House.

[tracer740]

Cheney has given our once -great nation another 'Vietnam'. He and his Corporate cronies are enriched immeasurably by the tragic flow and cost of this debacle.

[ourearthhome]

Arguably war is like any other government service the result of which is to increase and maintain land values. If we want government services, the proper source of revenue to pay for these things is taxation of the land value they create. If people want war let them pay for it fully now in the present generation via an increased tax on the land value increased and protected by the war. Is there any doubt that the kind of bogus war now being waged would be over the second this was required?

[TNMTTX]

*each American

[TNMTTX]

Amen, rileymayhem20

When she says the "global war on terror" costs each American $20,000, I'm just thinking how Medicare alone costs Americans $36,000.

[rileymayhem20]

The Cost of Medicare/Medicade, illegal immigration, social security, heating your upper west side apartment and the New Jersey Turnpike cost more than the global war on terror.

Saving YOUR ass weather you like it or not!

-Fly over Country

[StefanMarkBee]

...say it over and over and over -

and much louder !!!

[corylatimer]

I'll check them out.

[Hottides]

It's high time you grew out of juvenile leftist conspiracy nonsense and recognized our true enemy: Fundamentalist Islam. Hear Rationalist heroine and true freedom fighter Ayaan Hirsi Ali speak from bitter personal experience about the barbaric threat to liberal soceinty and the hard-won intellectual and social gains of centuries:

watch?v=BeYGC0yHeHg

watch?v=Kq1eORpmbzU

[corylatimer]

Man you've been brainwashed so bad its going to take a long time to remove yourself from that deep propaganda hole your in. Better start now.