The billions spent on the Iraq and Afghanistans war was money badly spent, even without doing the math, on the war vs. investing in electric cars, in my opinion.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
Harry Truman
And before anyone jumps on me, don’t, I’m not in the mood. Don’t take this post or the Truman quote as some kind of manifesto on my part. I just think these wars were a waste of money, of blood, of life. And I felt like posting this particular quote of Truman’s. Nothing more to it than that.