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The Costs of WarPosted Tuesday, November 17, 2009, at 10:24 AM
When Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts ran for President in
2004 a big part of his campaign had to do with the dollar costs
incurred in fighting wars. Sen. Kerry emphasized a billion for
bullets there meant no money for better roads here. Every war
leader soon learns it costs money to wage war. The financial
instruments known as "bonds" were created to finance wars. Bonds
made money available for waging real, first-class world wars.
Men who send other men to war issue sufficient bonds, but do not
necessarily count costs. Perhaps if it were only money wars
wouldn't be all that bad. It is obvious we can always find more
money, even if we have to borrow it. Unfortunately wars cost
more than money. The 1967 episode of Star Trek entitled "A Taste
of Armageddon" tells of people in interminable war because they
counted the costs of war naively. In this episode, "Captain Kirk
learns the war