Never been clear how a country that's a poorly conceived patchwork of about five distinct countries who don't like each other is worth soaking American taxpayers for two trillion dollars because of terrorists who can melt across remote borders whenever things get sticky.
I'm sure there's a humdinger of a reason!
Funny how you kept your fears quiet during the Obama years.
Astonishing as it now must seem, I don't post all my opinions here on this board. My doubts (fears would be overstating) about land wars in Asia have been held since the early seventies. As LB points out, we have a welfare program for the war industry.
A welfare program for the war industry?
Boy I bet that is special.
S&P 500
Total return: 516.67 percent
Annualized return: 9.56 percent
$10,000 2001 stock purchase today: $61,613.06
Basket of Top Five Contractor Stocks
Total return: 872.94 percent
$10,000 2001 stock purchase ($2,000 of each stock) today: $97,294.80
Boeing
Total return: 974.97 percent
Annualized return: 12.67 percent
$10,000 2001 stock purchase today: $107,588.47
Board includes: Edmund P. Giambastiani Jr. (former vice chair, Joint Chiefs of Staff), Stayce D. Harris (former inspector general, Air Force), John M. Richardson (former navy chief of Naval Operations)
Raytheon
Total return: 331.49 percent
Annualized return: 7.62 percent
$10,000 2001 stock purchase today: $43,166.92
Board includes: Ellen Pawlikowski (retired Air Force general), James Winnefeld Jr. (retired Navy admiral), Robert Work (former deputy secretary of defense)
Lockheed Martin
Total return: 1,235.60 percent
Annualized return: 13.90 percent
$10,000 2001 stock purchase today: $133,559.21
Board includes: Bruce Carlson (retired Air Force general), Joseph Dunford Jr. (retired Marine Corps general)
General Dynamics
Total return: 625.37 percent
Annualized return: 10.46 percent
$10,000 2001 stock purchase today: $72,515.58
Board includes: Rudy deLeon (former deputy secretary of defense), Cecil Haney (retired Navy admiral), James Mattis (former secretary of defense and former Marine Corps general), Peter Wall (retired British general)
Northrop Grumman
Total return: 1,196.14 percent
Annualized return: 13.73 percent
$10,000 2001 stock purchase today: $129,644.84
Board includes: Gary Roughead (retired Navy admiral), Mark Welsh III (retired Air Force general)
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