I'm posting this not so much because I have comments, but because I haven't seen anyone else discussing this. What's up you news savvy folk?
On a related note, a friend of mine had a cool idea. Given the poor economic state, I have before noted we need a really expensive war to encourage so old fasioned Keynesian spending by the government.
Why don't we just drop tanks and helicopters on Iraq rather than bombs? This way we can get rid of mothballed equipment as well as encourage loads of defense spending, which will create jobs, which will kick-start the economy, etc, etc. I like it.
