There are the tens of thousands of dead, the wounded, the demoralized, the displaced, and the increasing numbers of insurgents. And then there’s this:
The $151 billion already allocated for the U.S. war in Iraq could have purchased:
*Housing vouchers for 23 million families or
*Health care for 27 million uninsured Americans or
*3 million new elementary school teachers or
*Two years worth of: food for half the hungry people in the world AND a comprehensive global AIDS treatment and prevention program AND clean water and sanitation throughout the developing world AND childhood immunizations for all children in the developing world.
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Her face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, she sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of her feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm . . . . irresistibly propels her into the future to which her back is turned, while the pile of debris before her grows skyward. (Walter Benjamin, revised)
