One thing that never gets mentioned when "the cost of war" is
discussed is that a lot of that money gets pumped into the economy -
soldiers pay, buying weapons, etc. Lots of jobs, too - imagine the
recent recession without all the defense spending!

I seem to recall that the real solution to the Great Depression was
WW2, not FDR's social engineering.

It does irritate me that as a country we are not willing to impose a
war tax on everbody in the US to pay for our adventures - thank you
gutless politicians.

Kirk