The costs ...

Reading this, I'm brought back to the last M*A*S*H episode, when they're all in the OR with Armed Forces Radio on, and the costs of the Korean War are broadcast:

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But when weighing those possible benefits against the costs of the Iraq intervention, there is simply no conceivable calculus by which Operation Iraqi Freedom can be judged to have been a successful or worthwhile policy. The war was intended to show the extent of America’s power. It succeeded only in showing its limits.

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