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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Do neocons care about any of the following?
-- cost
-- feasibility
-- effective execution
-- results
-- dead American soldiers
I'm just wondering. You talk about being "for" and "against" war like it's a board game.
Getting rid of Saddam is fine. I'm happy to see him gone, will be happier to watch him die (my rabidly anti-death penalty views have an exception for genocide).
Yet, I would not have traded 3000 dead and 10000 maimed American soldiers for that. I wonder if most Americans, if they'd been given a realistic assessment of the costs before the war, would have.
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I was just pointing out how necons differ from Conservatives and Liberals. Yes they do take those things into account, but obviously some neocons give more weight to that stuff than others.
From my perspective it is really hard to put a price on a regime change. It is worth a lot. From hindsight, how much would you be willing to spend to get rid of Pol Pot prior to his genocide?
