Iran War Would Cost Trillions: Will GOP Pay More Taxes for That?

Steve Clemons
The Atlantic
February 12, 2012

While GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul is doing all he can in this election cycle to gin up a debate about US foreign policy and a measure of the costs and benefits, the debate about Iran, China, Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel’s security has been taking place in a gravityless environment.

Mitt Romney’s opening foreign policy opus at the Citadel criticized Obama for defense cuts with promises to boost America’s defense commitments abroad, to boost military spending on hardware and ships in the Pacific — to do everything we have been doing but more.

Where are the dollars going to come from?

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This article was posted: Sunday, February 12, 2012 at 9:49 pm

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