10000? what if it were 100 a day for 100 days? Still less than car fatalities in a year.
9/11 happened.. ho hum.. call me when it's over
Imagine what the world would be like today if the US government had somehow managed to take this approach in 2001. (I say "somehow" because even if Bush and everyone around him wanted to do it this way, people were calling for blood.)
Here's what I see:
1. Al Qaeda remains a global nuisance but ignorable.
2. The governments of Iraq and Afghanistan remain more or less like they were. The population of those countries is probably differently off than they are in reality, but not necessarily better or worse.
3. The US federal debt is several trillion dollars lower.
4. The US economy is doing better.
5. No PATRIOT act, nobody rotting away in Guantanamo, somewhat less ubiquitous surveillance.
All in all, sounds like a big win. Do you disagree?
The Afghani probably wouldn't be as high on heroin as they are now.
The commonly accepted plural form in English is "Afghans" [1].
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_adjectival_and_demonym...
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
As far as resourcing goes food and clothing is as easy a problem to solve as the U.S. will ever encounter; it is the will to solve it that is necessary.