It is good therapy knowing your tax dollars are being well spent, *when* they are well spent.
And it's the only Dept. routinely required to provide cost benefit analysis to Congress.
Being a veteran of the 1983 'peacekeeping' mission to Lebanon my opinion may be just a bit clouded by my experiences over there. But I don't think I'm alone in thinking that Earth would be better off if we reduced the Muslim population by say 10-15%. Provided of course we get the right 10-15%.
I say we start in Syria and then move on to the Bekka Valley. After we clean out those rats nests, we can move on to Tehran and Riyadh.
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