War is VERY risky. The recent "surge" in Iraq was 140,000 troops. A 1.5% catastrophic failure rate per month in that endeavor would have meant EVERY American soldier killed. What was the rate? About 0.07%.
What does that mean? That means that Americans tolerate TWENTY TIMES less acceptable risk in WAR than they do in the scientifically worthless Shuttle Program. Great PR machine NASA has. And the public, is, well, gullible. Murderously gullible.
The recent "surge" in Iraq was 140,000 troops. A 1.5% catastrophic failure rate per month in that endeavor would have meant EVERY American soldier killed. Oops -- one decimal place off. Not EVERY soldier killed, just 25,000. That would be just as unacceptable.