tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-95738970217731354.post2148449215329445036..comments2023-12-28T02:52:31.067-08:00Comments on Went 2 the Bridge: Cannon Fodder Is Cheap But Drones Are Mega ExpensiveLisa Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06319699936783253064noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-95738970217731354.post-77537572649437100402012-01-20T12:07:42.171-08:002012-01-20T12:07:42.171-08:00Correcting some uninteresting typos:
I'm sure ...Correcting some uninteresting typos:<br />I'm sure you're familiar with the reported cost of keeping a US soldier in Afghanistan: a million dollars a year. So the loss of drones so far, if that cost had been spent on soldiers in Afghanistan, would have supported a one-year deployment of one hundred forty soldiers. <br />I'm confident that the number one reason Israel is so frantic the last ten years, increasingly reliant on brutal military operations that only deeped its strategic peril and on contracting its already notional democratic rule of law, is that a million or so US people have traveled to Iraq and Afghanistan and come home to report that Arabs, Muslims, etc., actually exist and are not cartoon characters, thus destroying the major plank in the pro-Israel propaganda machine. War is not a video game. I can remember when I had that understanding of it, in 1969, watching Walter Cronkite tote up the week's kills/wounded/missing for US/ARVN/I wonder how he designated the enemy (N. Vietnam, Communist, or maybe just "demonic warriors") on the Friday evening news. I was always yearning for combat footage. By some misadventure, I grew up and took responsibility for my tax dollars at work. I just made a typo of interest: dollwars.chrisrushlauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11432949074147807503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-95738970217731354.post-64596577113706600802012-01-20T12:02:50.997-08:002012-01-20T12:02:50.997-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.chrisrushlauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11432949074147807503noreply@blogger.com