CHUMP CHANGE
It's gratifying to see the US pledge a hundred million dollars and send in the military to Haiti to help with the earthquake devastation relief. It shows that America's gargantuan military, which exceeds that of the rest of the world combined, can actually be used for good instead of criminal war.
Sadly, that hundred million is chump change compared to the trillion we have squandered to sow death and destruction in Afghanistan, Iraq and now Pakistan, in imaginary crusades against the equivalent of a street gang who punctured our porous security defenses over eight years ago.
Originally published in Glen Ellyn News, January 20, 2010
Also published in Chicago Tribune, January 27, 2010
Sadly, that hundred million is chump change compared to the trillion we have squandered to sow death and destruction in Afghanistan, Iraq and now Pakistan, in imaginary crusades against the equivalent of a street gang who punctured our porous security defenses over eight years ago.
Originally published in Glen Ellyn News, January 20, 2010
Also published in Chicago Tribune, January 27, 2010
posted by Walt Zlotow at 7:48 PM
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