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Originally posted by GreatWyrm of Babylon@Sep 2 2003, 01:03 AM
FedFem
I do not think America's economy is dependent on any wars. Anyway the current way we are fighting them is not going to boast an economy, they are low fatality but high cost. Nor do I believe that America is too arrogant, we get blamed no matter what we do, so exactly what encouragement do we have to bother to try to get along... |
GWB, the US economy, actually even more so the British economy, rests upon the export of arms. While the US government spending money on its own wars is not hugely helpful to your economy, other people making war is. Which is why you got friendly with Iraq and Iran, to sell them both weapons. Or India and Pakistan. Or the Tutsi's and the Hutu's. The US/UK need people to make war, or their principle exports die off, which will collapse their economies.
It also has residual effects. The end of wars mean damaged infrastructure need rebuilding. Whose got better knowledge of how to do this but the US and the EU! Yey, so they blow up their roads and buildings with our bombs only to pay us to fix them.