[AntiGuv]

This piece is fairly tightly reasoned, but it fails to grapple with balancing the long term costs of containment...with the cost of a "final solution" now.

Do you account for the human costs or are you only balancing the financial aspects of the equation?

[Torie]

I am a big picture broad gauge kind of guy actually. I always have been. It is not clear at all to me that containment will lead to a lower body count longer term, particularly among Iraqis. But yes, it is speculative.