>>Killing people and destroying their infrastructure/possessions simply is not a reasonable or sensible cost/benefits equation. Period. No ifs, and, or buts.
>
>
>Killing a hundred thousand people so billions can live lives whose potential isn't squelched by mad despots seems like a sensible cost/benefit equation to me.

The radical Jihadists feel exactly the same way.

100,000 people have been killed in Iraq. Where are thos billions affected positively by that???

Sorry, Mike, but people "given" freedom by destroying what they own and the facilities that serve them is resented, not appreciated.