Economic cost is a perfectly good reason to close Gitmo. That's money we could be spending on Head Start, Meals on Wheels, cancer clinics. We should become more conversant in the economic cost of evil policies. Did you know the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is expected to cost $1.5 trillion?
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 10:02 PM, ken hanly <[email protected]> wrote: > I would think it is a play on the fact that Obama tries to blame every > bad thing he does on Congress but then Chuck can explain for himself I am > sure. Obama in this case enumerated a number of reasons why Guatanamo > should be closed including that it hurt the reputation of the US presumably > because it is regarded as unjust and immoral and contrary to US espoused > values about the rule of law and rights etc. not because of its failure to > pass a cost-benefit analysis or is too expensive. He also pointed out other > factors such as that it was not necessary to protect Americans. His reasons > made eminent good sense but I expect he will still not close Guantanamo any > time soon. > > Cheers, ken > > Blog: http://kenthink7.blogspot.com/index.html > Blog: http://kencan7.blogspot.com/index.html > ------------------------------ > *From:* raghu <[email protected]> > *To:* Progressive Economics <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Saturday, May 4, 2013 5:18:47 PM > *Subject:* Re: [Pen-l] commit no evil, because evil is too expensive? > > On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Chuck Grimes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Don't blame Obama for this. Blame a culture in which the norm requires that > every acceptable argument be phrased in economic self-interest terms. > > -raghu. > ---------- > > Did I blame Obama? We know Obama does bad things because Congress makes him > do bad things. > > CG > > > > > I have no idea what this is supposed to mean. > -raghu. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > -- Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected]
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