$aving$ at last! Experts say this war is cost-effective!

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Link - CNN

"The air war has been extremely cost-effective in the sense there was very little collateral damage in terms of civilian casualties because of the extensive use of smart bombs," said Jim Phillips, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation.

Putting this in historical context, the United States was spending about 40 percent of gross domestic product on the military in World War II. Today it's about 3 percent, and only a tiny fraction of that is going to the war in Afghanistan.

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[purplehayes]

Can we price match with Staples and use an onlin coupon code?

PH

 

[isasir]

Hmm... does this mean we can start 12 more wars all at the same time, and still be better off than we were during WWII?

Lesse, people here seem to have problems with Iraq, Pakistan, Canada.... we need 9 more countries....

 

[Cyberian]

"The air war has been extremely cost-effective in the sense there was very little collateral damage in terms of civilian casualties because of the extensive use of smart bombs," said Jim Phillips, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation."

Has anyone seen any estimates on the number of civilian casualties? I looked on google and the only estimate I could find was 3,500, by one professor in New Hampshire. That number sounded high to me.

 

[b0mbrman]

<< Has anyone seen any estimates on the number of civilian casualties? I looked on google and the only estimate I could find was 3,500, by one professor in New Hampshire. That number sounded high to me. >>



I think the number might be a huge range cuz it's hard to differentiate between who is a civilian and who is a combatant.

 

[Bignate603]

We've actually come a pretty long way from the gulf war with precision bombing. I'm impressed with what they can do.

 

[Smbu]

Don't forget that the GDP of the US is much higher now than it was during WWII.
So the percentage, even though it is much smaller might still be huge.
According to the US Department of Commerce: Bureau of Economic Analysis the GDP(in Billions) in
1944 : 219.7 so the Military at 40% of GDP was using 87.88
2000 : 9827.9 and at last years rates at 3% of GDP the military is using 294.837

So the military is using well over 3 times the amount of money they were using as compared to one of the later war years, even though the percent of GDP is 13 times less than it was then.