What Does Iraq Cost? Even More Than You Think. (Washington Post)
Economics professor and blogger Tyler Cowen argues that besides the actual monetary cost of the Iraq war, there are also huge opportunity costs we face that will have even greater effects on the future of our country.
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1 comment:
I agree 100%. The opportunity cost is staggering. There are a lot of parallels with Vietnam. We probably won't lose as badly as we did in Vietnam, but it's tragic nonetheless. Too bad that Bush didn't study the lessons of Vietnam. He never was much of a thinker.
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