| Today is the 4th anniversary of the Iraq War, possibly the greatest political crime of our times, If you want a conservative idea of the dollar value of the costs, take a look at the Iraq War Cost Estimator, prepared by the Bookings Institution and the American Enterprise Institute. What that chart does not show is the economic interests who benefit from this crime. But it does show a figure that is roughly five times the total of all US grantmaking last year.
Frankly, I see the Iraq war as an organizational development project for mercenary organizations, military contractors, and the oil industry, funded by public money and human lives. I'm confident it would have been cheaper just to give them the money. I wonder what civil society could have accomplished with that money.
Posted: 3/19/07; 10:16:58 AM # |