Healthcare vs. Warfare: The Future Costs of the Afghanistan War

On Wednesday, President Obama will address a joint session of Congress on health care. Later this year he will decide whether to deploy additional troops to the war in Afghanistan, in addition to the 69,000 troops already deployed. The struggle for health care and the struggle to end warfare are inextricably linked. The cost for substantive (though imperfect) health care reform as envisioned in the House of Representatives approach (with the public ... Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - Sep. 8, 2009

Leys' conservative military costs seem to ignore veterans benefits and the indirect costs of physical and mental damage caused by the occupations, but he makes a compelling guns or butter analysis.

What emerges is a never ending war with never ending costs unless pressure can be brought to bear upon President Obama and Congress to reverse course in Afghanistan and to maintain the course of troop withdrawal in Iraq.

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