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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index
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To: ggersh who wrote (241518)3/19/2010 10:53:25 AM
From: ChanceIsRead Replies (1) of 306849
 
>>>For WWII didn't we also manufacture everything.<<<

Excellent point. I must be slipping in that I forget to mention that.

Wars are always stimulative - and then there is a vicious hangover. People are put to work in the arms factories who might otherwise be sitting idle. The whole logistical supply chain is put into gear. I mention with regrets that those in the front line are getting combat pay.

Arms are most worthwhile when sitting in the warehouse as a deterrent to misbehavior. Are the Iraq and Afghanistan wars absurd??? Of course. I was in favor of both believing int he first that we would be welcomed with open arms into a society which pined for democracy and the only obstacle to that divine consummation being Saddam. In fact Iraq is a make believe state with factions who live to kill each other and have done so for the last two millennia. I should not have been so naive but I am a simple layperson. No excuse for the professionals in the Department of State. We should have quit the area after one year had the situation not begun to self heal.

Afghanistan is a herding and farming country. I heard an electricity professional who served there as a reservist state that 90% of Afghans had never had electricity and never would. Cruise missiles and predator drone hellfires for the Al Quieda (sp?) pockets is what is appropriate. I don't know whether it is possible to target those w/o troops on the ground. But that is what the CIA and the like is for. We have people who love that stuff - Seals, Green Berets, Rangers and probably a super elite who make tose guys look like wimps. I recall talking to an ex Air Force colonel about 15 years ago. We had put a price on some Banana dictators head (Noriega ?). He said that he could name 15 colleagues who were likely crawling on their bellies at that moment trying to track down and kill whomever just for the sport of it.

So yes. War is stimulative. Always more destructive in the long run. And we have lots of other options.

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