There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it

You can have whatever viewpoint about the war that you want. In fact, we have a few different ones at the agency. It's irrelevant. What's important is that these are 18-year-old human beings, Americans, who are under stress.

So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces

but they are a good start. Operation Offset, for example, steers away from cutting Cold War weapon systems at the Department of Defense. Military spending is already half of all discretionary spending, so it is not time to take any of the nation's budgetary choices off the table. Literally, we need to count all the federal dollars hiding in every agency couch cushion or we will never come up with the money to offset the Katrina costs.