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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (203104)9/20/2004 11:56:12 AM
From: RetiredNow  Read Replies (1) of 1571928
 
To answer your question, we'd also have to calculate the cost to the U.S. of lack of Democracy in the Middle East for the next 50 years including the following:
1) higher oil prices due to instability
2) high economic costs of terrorism against U.S. interests outside and within our homeland (some estimates of the cost of 9/11 run into the trillions)
3) lost trade and lost productivity of the entire Middle East population living under autocratic governments that are incapable of increasing GDP in a meaningful way

Take all of the above and compare it to the amount we have and will have to spend in Iraq and then you have your answer. I don't know the answer, but I will tell you that based on our successes with Japan and Germany, the net benefit in terms of increased U.S. prosperity from trade and peace with Middle Eastern countries has the potential to be huge.
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