On top of Ezra Klein's very fiscally cogent post about how wars do indeed cost money comes this one today by Benjamin Friedman at The National Interest. After a well-argued discourse on the foolishness of Congress funding wars with supplementals rather than from the military budget directly, he concludes:
Without costs they can feel, democracies cannot meaningfully evaluate policies. Wars that seem free are likely to be foolish.Indeed.
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