Replies to post #39537 on Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[thepennyking]

Raising a host of a hundred thousand
men and marching them great distances entails heavy loss
on the people and a drain on the resources of the State.
The daily expenditure will amount to a thousand ounces
of silver. There will be commotion at home and abroad,
and men will drop down exhausted on the highways.
As many as seven hundred thousand families will be impeded
in their labor.

http://www.chinapage.com/sunzi-e.html#13

[sarals]

Good article. I think anyone who honestly puts themselves in the shoes of an average Iraqi citizen would have to agree they would not want their streets filled with tanks and soldiers.

Anyone remember the movie Red Dawn?