intersections: The Cost of War

February 05, 2008

The Cost of War

President Bush just released his budget yesterday, which calls for a 8.1% increase in Pentagon spending while cutting domestic programs like Medicare for the poor and elderly and more than doubling the federal deficit, according to the LA Times. All of this, AND...experts say the real cost of continuing the war is not reflected in his budget. Not even close.

Please look at this video by the American Friends Service Committee, a ministry of the Quakers.

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.... The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.