"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The Real Cost Of Killing bin Laden
It only took 3 trillion dollars, a million lives, and the Bill of Rights to do it.
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Ah, but for our exalted leaders and their minions, it HAS BEEN "worth the price" -- every cent, every human life, every last bit of the shredded constitution. It was all about increasing their power. Everything about the great "war on terror," like everything about the holy "war on drugs," including its much-lamented "failure" to protect the public, is a lie.
Yeah, it's amazing to watch our leaders retire in plush wealth while we suffer with economic disasters.