I agree and would not want you to think that I take a position that the cost is totally irrlevant; it clearly is not.
I am against, however, stopping the WoD because of cost.
As for the rebelion, I agree with your well-stated observation. It points also to an alternative: people need to understand better why we do what we do. And that is not the role of the goevernment as much as that of other institutions.
I would in general prefer that the WoD be fought not by the government but by other institutions, such as chirch and family. The problem is, those institutions lie in ruin.
In this particular instance, we are not talking about stopping the war, but about choosing our battles a little more wisely. You seem convinced that any consideration of a change of strategy is tatamount to surrender.