Tal,quoted by Charles writes:
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
In terms of "cheap" vs expensive...In the third world, life is seemingly cheap...at least from our perspective. Al Queda thinks little of sending countless bodies to be blown to smithereens while the U.S. goes to great lengths to preserve our soldiers...even if it means killing a thousand of the enemy. We are expensive with our war, however...we will sacrifice a generations social welfare to finance this war. We spend billions yet lose hundreds in csualties. They would sacrifice millions of lives for their ideals and yet are unable to spend more than several million dollars max to do so.