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...which a continued American presence can make any substantial improvement to the effectiveness of Iraqi national government. Thus, the Americans are simply postponing the day in which the Iraqis themselves have to address their own problems in their own way. Whatever happens, there will be conflict and confusion when the Americans leave, with a fierce struggle for control of resources mediated by an army and police force who hold uncertain loyalty to their political masters. So with nothing to be gained by staying, there can be little to lose by fixing a date for the withdrawal of troops?...
...Iraq is already the second-most expensive conflict in U.S. history, after World War II. By the end of 2008, the federal government will have spent $800 billion on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (government accounts make it hard to separate the two). However, this figure is just the “burn rate” spent on combat operations, such as transportation, equipment, fuel, combat pay, and employing the 100,000 contractors who support (and are supported by) the war effort...
...from Iraq have applied for disability benefits. This is a cost that continues for years—the peak year for paying World War II benefits was 1993. The federal government spends $4.3 billion a year in disability compensation for veterans of the first Gulf War, even though that conflict lasted only a month. Given the intensity of combat and the high injury rates in Iraq and Afghanistan, we expect close to 50 percent of current troops to qualify for long-term disability compensation...
...Linda J. Bilmes ’80, a former assistant secretary of commerce, teaches public finance at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She is coauthor (with Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz) of “The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict...
...demonstrators have been killed. China has widely mobilized troops to curb the violence. The Chinese asked protesters to turn themselves in by last night, but as the deadline passed, police officers continued to patrol Lhasa, according to the Associated Press. “The basic cause of the conflict is the difference between the promise of autonomy and the reality,” said William C. Kirby, director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Kirby, who traveled to Tibet last October, said that the presence of Chinese military forces is extremely visible—even in time of peace...