Not all things can be properly thought of in dollars and cents. Healthcare is one, for example. This is well known, even by those of us who would sell you on the idea that private healthcare is some sort of solution to the problem of looking after people and keeping society healthy. There’s some amount of personal agency involved, but when one of these forever chemicals causes cancer in your body, then what choices do you have? Are you going to mortgage your house to pay for staying alive, or is the house worth your death?
The same cynical calculation happens in war. This is why we don’t talk about war in terms of how much money can be made. That concept died out in the Middle Ages, and should stay dead, so it’s disturbing to hear otherwise. And let’s not forget that Iran is made up of human beings, as is every other country on the planet. The people who lead rarely represent the people of the nation, although in democracies, they do tend to be closer to representative. In Iran, this isn’t remotely the case. And destroying an elementary school along with allied troops is evidence of a horrible mismanagement of epic proportions.
The only type of war that’s allegedly worth it is fought for moral reasons, not for economic ones. There is nothing about the current war that implies any moral high ground, especially since the weapons that we’re supposed to be fighting over have allegedly been neutralized earlier in the Summer of 2025. In other words, this is a self-imposed war that has already cost American lives, and has no useful purpose, and no exit strategy. It’s Iraq all over again, only without the recent justification of 9/11 to spur us on. So this time, the ruse is falling flat, and rightfully so.
Don’t fall for the hype. War benefits nobody. The poor pay, and the rich line their pockets.
