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Originally Posted by Americano
How else would the MIC have reached its current resource hogging status without implanting fear? Gotta have that fear. I treasure the way people calculate only the deficit spending as the cost of war in Iraq. That our foreign policy at the point of a gun is acknowledged to be a major factor in oil speculation costs and the decline of our currency seems to be lost in their fear.
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Thank you for the jog there. Indeed most people never factor the inflation - inflation is the currency expansion which eventually results in higher prices - higher prices are the result of inflation of the currency. Too much currency after too few goods.
Other factors - over 4,000 American and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives, the infrastructure destroyed, the anti-American sentiment that is rising around the world.
People are only fooling themselves if they believe all this is going to make America safer...