What the Iraq fight really costs us
The very least our government can do for the armed forces and the
nation is to admit the true price of war
Newsday.com
May 27, 2005
James Klurfeld
What the Iraq fight really costs us
As we begin a long Memorial Day weekend, the least we can do is
finally, even at this late date, be honest about how difficult and
costly the war in Iraq is going to be for the men and women fighting
and dying for us there.
Niall Ferguson gave us a measure of that reality this week in a New
York Times op-ed piece. Ferguson, a professor of history at Harvard,
argued that to defeat the insurgency in Iraq and establish a modicum
of stability there would take one million U.S. soldiers and possibly
30 to 60 years. That contrasts to the 138,000 soldiers there now and a
prevailing belief that we will start to draw down troops next year -
before the midterm elections.
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