civilian casualties

While everyone is busy focusing on the Democratic Convention and our presidential horserace war wages on:

U.S. Killed 90, Including 60 Children, in Afghan Village, U.N. Finds

The party's over for investors in non-defense foreign industry:

Mashal was six years old when he and his family returned home to Kabul, Afghanistan after the war in 2001. Like many children do, Mashal was playing outside of his home when his mother heard a loud explosion. He screamed once and then became quiet. His right leg had been completely blown off.1

Sunday’s Multi-National Force - Iraq briefing delivered by Rear Admiral Gregory Smith contained some significant news.  The “sole topic” of Smith’s briefing was to address the foreign fighters now engaged in hostilities in Iraq.

We didn't hear too much about last week's Joint Economic Committee's public examination of the costs of the war. The witnesses included the Nobel Prize-winning economist, Joseph Stiglitz, and Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International.

Think about this.

For a fraction of the cost of the war, Social Security could have been saved and put on a "sound footing for the next half-century or more."