…costs. For instance, many have wondered aloud whether, absent the Iraq invasion, we would still be stuck in Afghanistan. And this is not the only “what if” worth contemplating. We…

…Afghanistan? The answer to all of these questions is the same: Of course not! The net spending will go wherever the Government intends it to go – after all the…

…in Vietnam and now Afghanistan. The Eurasian land mass is no place to try to be dominant. But it is an excuse to waste 5% of GDP that should be…

…also now operating in China along the Yangtze River and through Wangari Maathai’s Greenbelt Movement in Kenya. Even war-torn Afghanistan has created its own “Afghan Conservation Corps.” The United States…

…Mr. Boot contempt of the US constitution implying US military force should have occupied Georgia to make it better somehow. Should have been as successful as Afghanistan today. Mr. Boot…

…ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq continue to swallow billions annually. In that context, making the revenue reductions permanent starts to sound like crazy thinking. Obama campaigned (somewhat foolishly, from…

…three things: Bush’s tax cuts, Bush’s decision to go to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the need for economic stimulus and financial system bailout to counter the financial crisis…

…we were engaged in Afghanistan, and the entirety of 2002 was eaten up building support for a War on Iraq, the time clearly wasn’t ripe to take on Social Security…

…so far) and the huge increase in government under Bush from militarization and his “preemptive war” policy (costs of the Iraq-Afghanistan wars in human lives greater than 5000 and in…

…Panelists: Bob McTeer, Megan McArdle, Mark Thoma 1:00 p.m. Persuasion and Norms Paul Romer 1:30 p.m. Panel 2-Is Growth a Mystery? Haiti, Afghanistan, Africa… Moderator: Tim Kane Panelists: Alex Tabarrok,…