>>As the bumper sticker put it: "Thou Shalt Not Kill/Includes Your Enemies." I suspect we all have things worth dying for, the only question being "was it worth it?"
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>>Hank
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>>PS: the case can, and has been made -- by US Military strategists including Petraeus -- that we messed up in Vietnam, Irag and Afghanistan because we focused on killing the enemy, rather than protecting the public and providing them with better lives. While everything is open to interpretation at some level, any discussion of these wars has to begin with the analyses of those who have the most to lose by bucking the system.
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>It's why the military spends so much time building bridges, schools, youth centers, roads, hospitals, trucking in food and supplies, etc.

And squanders about ten times more money on weapons, fuel, ammunition and fortifications. And then, on top of that, there's still the $9 billion from years ago, which vanished from the Iraq-dedicated slice of the budget, that nobody's looking for.

Mind you, Iraq had all that before 2003.