Consider how much the Imperial Chinese gov't paid to battle Mao compared to what the little socialist strategist himself paid, or what the Russians sank into Vietnam against the price of America's defensive measures. . . Or what America doled out in the Middle East during the eighties to keep it from becoming Soviet solvent. . .And you'll see a standing army always costs more than seperatist soldiers, and can sometimes be less effective.
Britain did lose the Revolutionary War after all, though I doubt many stop to consider our nation's current perile in context of its rather remarkable past.
Common sense I know, but this article points out exactly how very chinked our 'World's Last Super Power' armour is. . .
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/N...579641,00.html
United Nations - A new United Nations report has found that all major al-Qaeda-linked terror attacks - except the September 11 hijackings - cost less than $50 000 each. Here is a list of attacks, their estimated cost according to the report, and the number of people killed.
August 1998: Simultaneous bombings of United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Cost less than $50 000. Tanzania attack killed 12 people, all Africans. Kenya attack killed 219 people, including 12 Americans.
October 2000: Bombing of USS Cole in Aden, Yemen. Cost less than $10 000. Killed 17 US sailors.
September 2001: Four jetliners hijacked. Two crashed into World Trade Centre towers; one hit the Pentagon; one crashed in Pennsylvania. Cost "over six figures." Nearly 3 000 people killed.
October 2002: Two nightclubs bombed in Bali, Indonesia. Cost less than $50 000. Killed 202 people.
August 2003: Bombing of JW Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia. Cost about $30 000. Killed 12 people.
November 2003: Suicide truck bombings at two synagogues, the British consulate and London-based HSBC Bank in Istanbul, Turkey. Cost less than $40 000. Killed more than 50 people.
March 2004: Bombings on four rush-hour commuter trains in Spanish capital, Madrid. Cost about $10 000. Killed 191 people.
Edited by Andrea Botha
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