yeah right...imagine,what 500b can do,in right hands, invested in R&D... justo to give you an idea- http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4230315.html
its so fucking sad because we have the means to progress, and instead are pillaging our financial resources with this iraq/afghan garbage. I feel like we are the astronaut in 2001 space odyssey hal kicked out of the ship.. just drifting farther away from progress and powerless to get back.
But imagine a US that loses its guaranteed oil supply? How many trillions of $ would that cost the economy, how many 'american lives' would be lost in the homeland? Those are questions that the people complaining about the war never think about. I'm not for the war, but can understand that as America is basically all about money and business the country has no other options open to it unless it negotiates some sort of peace but as the American government is stocked full of religious nutcases that's highly unlikely to happen. PS. And war is good for business don't forget.
Imagine a US that spent that $$$ this past few yrs on efficient cars, solar research funding, installing nuclear power plant base, etc. so it wouldn't matter if oil supplies disappeared? Thats good for business, just *different* businesses. [defense contractors and oil producers obviously not]
We lose all oil. How many american lives would be lost in the homeland? If you cant drive or fly you die? how so?
Freeze all the money of those middle eastern sheiks, that they hold and invest in US. and told them to find osama(if that's the goal in afgan). i guarantee you, by the end of the week, they will send his head to lil bush. This will cost US absolutely nothing. this afgan\osama war is a joke, spit in US citizens face.. http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSL1242907320071112?rpc=24