The cost of Iraq war is now estimated at $43,500 per US household. Should we continue?

Question

$43,500 per household, that money is gone, with the wind, slipped through a crack. Do you think, we need to continue and for what. (2 Billion a day)

Answer 1

I think it's quite obvious we should never have gone, and whatever we do now will have seriously bad consequences for all parties. The best thing we can do is get out as soon as possible, saving our soldiers lives, our own money and perhaps what little dignity we have left.

Answer 2

You are asking the wrong question. All wars have a cost in blood and treasure, but cost cannot be the key question. The only questions to ask are:
(1) Is the war just? (Was diplomacy exhausted? Was there an imminent threat? Etc.)
(2) Is the commander competent? (Adequate preparation? Full understanding of the enemy? Etc.)

Thus, there are "Good" wars and "Bad" wars. WW II, Korea, Gulf War I, and Afgahanistan were "Good" wars; Vietnam and Iraq were "Bad" wars. Cost had nothing to do with it.

All other arguments are useless and fruitless. Give it up.

Answer 3

The value of some things are not measured in money. How much is freedom worth, or health worth, or a good education?
I have to confess though that the results don't seem to be adequate for the investment of human life, but that may still change. I don't believe defeat and surrender is the answer, but we do clearly need to change course if it is ever going to be worth the lives it has cost.

Answer 4

sure, my investments more than double that expense. i think this is a great source of government welfare (masquerading as free market war profiteering) for those who deserve it.

or it's just criminal.

Answer 5

Where's your source?

Answer 6

yes we should. and i do not make that much a year. how could it have cost me that much?