How Obama could deal with Syria. Play the long game and make Assad do it. Invasion seems pointless. Everyone appears to be at war with everyone else - want to join in? Get the chemical weapons out of the equation President Obama drew a red line in the sand and to maintain any dignity he …
Category: cost of war
Afghanistan – prospect of failure?
Army chief warns of prospect of failure in Afghanistan.When the chief of the army starts a claim for more pay with dire warnings of losing a war in Afghanistan it takes away some edge from the argument he is making. Losing in Afghanistan is a worse result than underpaid soldiers, certainly.Full article on DT: Predicting …
World Depression
and how to avoid itIs the world falling into some kind of recession? That is when growth starts to subside and things economically suck, but if one understands it right, then what it is seen as is the loss of confidence based on property ownership - a line of credit was generally loosened up for …
Three Trillion US Dollars
The real cost of the Iraqi misadventure to the people of the USA has been calculated by a Nobel winning economist at over three trillion dollars.