MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
Saw this at Marginal Revolution:
NPR: The amount the U.S. military spends annually on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan: $20.2 billion.
That’s more than NASA’s budget. It’s more than BP has paid so far for damage during the Gulf oil spill. It’s what the G-8 has pledged to help foster new democracies in Egypt and Tunisia.
Comments
Everyone should read that NPR article, whether pro or con our military adventures, whether green or not. It's the same ole same ole Pentagon brass stupidity. Even if you're a gung ho militarist totally unsympathetic to green thinking. You don't even have to cede the cost question, it's just idiotic strategery in counterinsurgency to have this supply line flaw to get around if you don't need to. Less supply trucks needed equals less exposure to sabotage and less dependence on supply lines means more mobility.
"He literally has to stop his combat operations for two days every two weeks so he can go back and get his fuel. And when he's gone, the enemy knows he's gone, and they go right back to where they were before. He has to start his counter-insurgency operations right back at square one."
by anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 06/27/2011 - 2:39pm