Charles Blow Speaks for Me: "HERE WE GO AGAIN"

[kpete]

The Cost of War
SEPT. 10, 2014

But I implore the president and the nation to proceed with caution.

We can kill anti-American fighters and even their leaders, but we can’t kill anti-American sentiment. To some degree, every time we commit our forces in the Middle East we run the risk of further inflaming that sentiment.

For every action, there is a reaction. And there are also consequences, some of them unintended.

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“Now, U.S. warplanes are flying sorties, at a cost somewhere between $22,000 to $30,000 per hour for the F-16s, to drop bombs that cost at least $20,000 each, to destroy this captured equipment. That means if an F-16 were to take off from Incirlik Air Force Base in Turkey and fly two hours to Erbil, Iraq, and successfully drop both of its bombs on one target each, it costs the United States somewhere between $84,000 to $104,000 for the sortie and destroys a minimum of $1 million and a maximum of $12 million in U.S.-made equipment.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/11/opinion/charles-blow-the-cost-of-war.html?_r=0

[Barack_America]

1. A win-win for the MIC.

Isn't that what really matters?

[still_one]

2. Actually he is proceeding with caution.

[babylonsister]

5. Yes, he is. The drama! nt

[blkmusclmachine]

3. We gotta lose the midterms somehow!

[BrotherIvan]

6. You got that right

Predictable as hell

[Scuba]

9. +1

[Marrah_G]

4. I am so angry tonight

Down the rabbit hole we go again.

[Cha]

7. Charles Blow really doesn't need to "implore" the President to "proceed with caution".. in case

anyone hasn't noticed that's what he's been doing.. that's the Obama way. And, I see no reason that he'll be doing it differently now.

And, it's not "here we go again".. it's bush's fucking mess that came from LIES and is the Cost of a misbegotten War.. and yeah we're still cleaning it up but this is not on President Obama who is being straight with us.

[AtomicKitten]

8. I like Mr. Blow.

And he is so right. I don't have the stomach or heart for more war. We should have left that messy mistake a longass time ago.