emptywheelIn 2002, Michael O'Hanlon estimated the Iraq War would cost $50B, with $5-$20B maintenance costs thereafter.
www.brookings.edu/articles/ove...
Faraiwe@emptywheel.bsky.social oooph, when you lose those darn commies at Forbes...
CJPaloma might be hiking@emptywheel.bsky.social nit picky, but the article links to fortune, not forbes which …yeah, the crapitalist class…tend to all look the same to me, too. Oopsie, did I say that in a public comment?
Jeff Sonstein@emptywheel.bsky.social @faraiwe good thing we did not waste that money on health care or a national campaign to shift to renewable energy.
@jsonstein @emptywheel.bsky.social GASP.
What are you, MAD??? using the results of collective effort, value creation and exchanges within a vast community for the benefit of its population???
CRAZY!!!
@faraiwe @emptywheel.bsky.social I know… whatever was I thinking?
@jsonstein ::slaps side of the head a la Perlman in name of the Rose::
Flaming Cheeto@emptywheel.bsky.social and we got... Not so free
