The financial cost of Osama ?

[joobie]

Do you mind explaining why you chose sarcasm for your answer and why you have "I don't care" under Avatar name ?

i chose sarcasm for my answer because i felt the question was deserving of it, and "i don't care" is a quote from a book by maurice sendak.

 

[h.g.Whiz]

i chose sarcasm for my answer because i felt the question was deserving of it, and "i don't care" is a quote from a book by maurice sendak.

Do you ever use sarcasm when answering a question that you feel doesn't deserve it ?
Why did you feel it deserved sarcasm ?

 

[Maus]

I'm more of a "who was paid" before I start thinking about how much necessarily.

For example, was there a street vendor selling maps or something? Those maps would have been useful and he could have really used the money I'm sure so it would have been worth it.

But seriously, whenever I hear talk about "how much" I start thinking about what it really means to distribute money for services and goods. Where the money comes from, where it goes; It's all very complicated.

 

[Spindrift]

If you bought something without a price tag on credit, when you eventually learn the cost do you think it would be too much?

Depends on the cost and what I bought.

Hundreds of millions to kill the most wanted mass-murderer in the world? Not too much.

 

[h.g.Whiz]

Depends on the cost and what I bought.

Hundreds of millions to kill the most wanted mass-murderer in the world? Not too much.

The only mass-murderer worth hundreds of millions in my opinion is hunger.

 

[Loss Leader]

The only mass-murderer worth hundreds of millions in my opinion is hunger.

Yeah! Screw malaria!

 

[Spindrift]

The only mass-murderer worth hundreds of millions in my opinion is hunger.

Not cancer, not heart disease, not AIDS?

Not illiteracy?

 

[joobie]

Do you ever use sarcasm when answering a question that you feel doesn't deserve it ?
Why did you feel it deserved sarcasm ?

not purposely although i'm sure i have accidentally, and because i found it to be kind of stupid.

 

[Rasmus]

Depends on the cost and what I bought.

Hundreds of millions to kill the most wanted mass-murderer in the world? Not too much.

So what exactly changed for the better now?

Are we suddenly save from terror? Did any wars stop? Did anyones quality of life improve in a measurable, quantifiable way?

Did the USA manage to uphold the rights of a suspected criminal in any whatsoever? Or at least the rights of a sovereign nations?

Does anyone now hate the USA or the west any less than before?

How much would have been too much, then?

 

[often mrunderstood]

I'd only count the cost of Afghanistan/pakistan operations. Iraq was Bush's personal vendetta.

It may be more complicated than that:

"Then in 2004, top al-Qaida operative Hassan Ghul was captured in Iraq. Ghul told the CIA that al-Kuwaiti was a courier, someone crucial to the terrorist organization. In particular, Ghul said, the courier was close to Faraj al-Libi, who replaced Mohammed as al-Qaida's operational commander. It was a key break in the hunt for in bin Laden's personal courier.

"Hassan Ghul was the linchpin," a U.S. official said."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_bin_laden_hunt_for_bin_laden

 

[I Ratant]

Do you ever use sarcasm when answering a question that you feel doesn't deserve it ?
Why did you feel it deserved sarcasm ?

.
It's not a well-thought out question, for starters.
What costs have we incurred in the years following 9/11 that were connected with the "search" and which of those costs aren't?
Be specific.
$8.32 is a good answer, otherwise.
And well spent.

 

[thaiboxerken]

It may be more complicated than that:

Not really. Iraq was not a viable place for Al Queda to be until after Saddam was unseated. Saddam hated those guys.

 

[Bilbo]

It cost, what it cost.

I suppose if you have a political agenda to grind, you could blame W for not payin' attention to that PDB 8-6-01. When your intel says Bin Laden wants to hijack planes and is conducting surveillance of buildings in NYC, perhaps it's time to put down the farking chainsaw and pay some tension.

 

[I Ratant]

I pay Waste Management a bit less than that per day to take out the trash.
But WM doesn't use helicopters.

 

[Spindrift]

So what exactly changed for the better now?

Osama bin Laden is no longer alive.

Are we suddenly save from terror? Did any wars stop? Did anyones quality of life improve in a measurable, quantifiable way?

No. No. How do you measure quality of life in a quantifiable way?

Did the USA manage to uphold the rights of a suspected criminal in any whatsoever? Or at least the rights of a sovereign nations?

Suspected? That's not how you spell self-admitted.

Does anyone now hate the USA or the west any less than before?

Probably not, but that wasn't the point. If someone hates the USA more because we took out a mass murderer then I doubt there is anything we could do to have them hate us less.

How much would have been too much, then?

I don't think they could have spent too much.

 

[BeAChooser]

How much did the "search for bin Laden" cost ?

How much did his attack on us cost? I'll bet the former pales in comparison to the latter.

 

[EGarrett]

i chose sarcasm for my answer because i felt the question was deserving of it, and "i don't care" is a quote from a book by maurice sendak.

I actually didn't think it was a great question either, but this is a discussion board. It is not your place to dictate what people want to talk about, nor is it your place to discourage or derail a thread. If you don't like the question, just move on like a mature adult and let them discuss it amongst themselves.

 

[joobie]

I actually didn't think it was a great question either, but this is a discussion board. It is not your place to dictate what people want to talk about, nor is it your place to discourage or derail a thread. If you don't like the question, just move on like a mature adult and let them discuss it amongst themselves.

i didn't dictate what he should talk about and maybe you should be a mature adult and take your own advice.

 

[EGarrett]

Your rude and useless reply, especially when it's the first one, derails the thread immediately and discourages him from posting more. This is a discussion board. If you don't like a topic, just click somewhere else. Comprende?

 

[joobie]

Your rude and useless reply, especially when it's the first one, derails the thread immediately and discourages him from posting more. This is a discussion board. If you don't like a topic, just click somewhere else. Comprende?

he, and you, are free to ignore any of my replies. he is also free to not bother asking me followup questions to his original stupid question. this is a discussion board, you have been here for a while, surely you know how it works by now?