Senator John Warner's public statements to start bringing troops back from Iraq seems to, m*, an event of note in the painful travesty this Administration's unnecessary war of choice has become.
Leaving aside the immense human toll for the moment, the roughly $500bn spent per year, or roughly $2 trillion already spent, represents the entire budget laid out by the American Society of Civil Engineers for bringing the crumbling US infrastructure up to acceptable levels.
In the panalopy of possible BHAG's available to the Administration five years ago, the focus on the foreign over the domestic now seems not only woefully unsuited for the times, but a tremendous missed opportunity for the Republicans, their friends in business, and the nation. As a welcome fiscal stimulus after the 2001 capital spending recession, an investment in the future productivity of the nation, and a way to keep Halliburton's coffers full with nice safe work at home, a China-scale infrastructure rebuild would have been a political triple play.
Isn't it ironic then that after five years and $2 trillion consumed in a useless war funded by debt sold to Asian Central Banks, the only way we'll see more repairs of repairs of repairs is with the help of this guy. How do you say EZPass in Chinese?
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