explod
explod
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Unless you expect America to keep a perpetual fly over in Iraq, exactly what do you expect them to do and achieve?
When the Govt here is trying push through legislation to make the under 30s destitute if they lose their job, I'd prefer the money we're wasting on our foreign military adventures to be spent at home for the betterment of the Australian people. The cost of just the Iraq war for Australia was $3B back in 2007 so who knows how much it is now. The Americans have wasted going on 2 trillion, with forecasts the long tail costs of all the broken soldiers needing support to bring the full cost to $6T. The Brits went through over 30B pounds in Afghanistan and Iraq and the Canadians had spent $22B by 2008. What did we get for it? Hundreds of thousands of deaths and a country more riddled with despair than when it was under the rule of a vicious and cruel dictator. I don't think we can afford to have that kind of success any more.
Imagine if that money had been spent on building factories and infrastructure to give the locals hope. People with jobs and a future to look forward to don't strap bomb vests to themselves or go around the world looking to kill someone. Imagine the universities and schools that could have been built, providing education to girls and encouraging a more secular malaysian / indonesian style of islam. Definitely harder to implement than your bomb them way, but at least we'd have had a fighting chance of success.
Excellent points.