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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TigerPaw who wrote (372187)2/27/2008 3:43:10 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1577133
 
Our return on WWII was winning the war, and eliminating the Nazi and Imperial Japanese threat. That was a huge return (even if it did have the large downside of causing Eastern Europe to become part of the Soviet Empire), but it was the only clear unambiguous return. Economic returns are far more questionable. Good will meant something but wasn't reliable, and also wasn't worth the vast amount of blood and treasure expended (over 3 tenths of a percent of the population killed, compared to about .001 percent, and over a third of GDP at the peak compared to either less than 1 percent (if your talking about just Iraq), or less than 5 percent (if you include all military spending). For Vietnam the figures are also much higher than today (even if much lower than WWII) 9.4% of GDP and around .025% killed.

Of course WWII had a lot more justification and necessity than Iraq, but trying to portray Iraq as more costly isn't very reasonable.
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