There's also the TSA scanner, an opportunity for perverts and pedophiles to peek at normal people. Don't leave out Big Sis's big contribution to Obama's legacy:
Posted on 05/06/2011 12:59:04 PM PDT by Pinetop
“It’s hard to argue with the economics”
No it isn’t, unless your brain is locked into a Bin Laden=9/11=10 years of defense spending. It’s a wee bit more comlicated than that.
“No it isn’t, unless your brain is locked into a Bin Laden=9/11=10 years of defense spending”
Meant to add “loop” to the end of that sentence.
How would this compare to WW2 adjusted for inflation?
he doesn't seem crazy to me, honest to a fault maybe but not crazy.
” $3 trillion over the past 15 years”
Big deal. Obama did that in less than a year.
I wonder how we would equate Bin Laden with Gavrilo Princip? If not now, in another 10 years?
Cost of Osama = 3 trilion over 10 years.
Cost of Obama = $8.5 trillion over 10 years.
Have a nice day.
There's also the TSA scanner, an opportunity for perverts and pedophiles to peek at normal people. Don't leave out Big Sis's big contribution to Obama's legacy:
Based on
http://www.westegg.com/inflation/ (which cites Consumer Price Index statistics from Historical Statistics of the United States and the annual editions of Statistical Abstracts of the United States for inflation conversion)
and
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/peaceinthepacific/numbers (which cites the National D-Day museum for war costs),
I calculate that 3 trillion in 2010 dollars is about 86% of what was spent by the US to fight WWII (converting the 2010 dollars to 1945 dollars).
Two bullets for bin Laden: Less than a cup of Starbucks.
The training needed to put those bullets where they needed to go, the technology to deliver the men with that training to the right location without the Pakistani government noticing their unscheduled visit to the neighborhood of their military academy, and the intelligence assets to figure out where the right location was: priceless (but VERY expensive).
Wondering the costs of Leftism on the US taxpayer since say Woodrow Wilson.
Wondering the costs of Leftism to the Constitution, and the US citizen since say Woodrow Wilson.
BLOAT.
Note that according to that website about WWII costs, our costs were nearly as much as Japan, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union combined.
Bin Laden was just the poster boy of the bigger problem... radical Islam. Much of that money was spent/invested in dealing with radicals the world over. The fight isn’t over just because this one figure is out of the picture... much remains to be done.
Trillions for offense, no, no, not a sixpence for jizya.
Adusted for inflation, I don’t know how it compares to WWII, but I can think of a stark comparison to John Brown with a thousand spears and a few carbines pulled off abolition.
Cloward,Pivin, Obama and Osama... the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
I agree with Trump. We should have the oil. You know if we withdraw from Afghanistan, the Chinese will be there for the lithium mines.
Wrong. Saudi Arabia and Pakistan cost us that much, not Bin laden
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