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Originally posted by Rox@Mar 21 2003, 12:02 AM
Ulfie, the figure of $300/day per soldier came from a program I was listening to yesterday morning [edit: it was Monday morning the 17th]. It's here:
http://kpcc.org/programming/airtalk/
I don't recall who gave the figure, but it was someone on this guest list:
Joining host Larry Mantle is Hal Kempfer, a military analyst for ABC 7 News and a Reserve Marine Lt. Colonel, Ben Works, Executive Director of the Strategic Issues Research Institute, an independent think tank in Washington, D. C., and the principal radio analyst for ABC Radio, and "GI" Wilson, a retired Infantry Colonel in the USMC.
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$300/day per "soldier" I can buy. $300/day per "citizen" in your original quote I can't. Big difference between the two. Personally, I think the investment is worth it but I'm a right wing kook so what do I know? We crush a nut named Hussein in Iraq, we have a fair amount of control in Afghanistan, Saudi Arabi are our allies (sort of) as well as Israel, Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, Syria, Turkey, etc. Do I have a point here? Yes, I do. Iran is now completely surronded with our allies. Does that have any value? Maybe GW isn't as dumb as everyone thought he was.