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You can probably debate some of the assumptions, but the University of Chicago study <\/a>summarized here<\/a> certainly seems to make a case that not only does this war make more economic <\/i>sense than continued “containment,” but it makes a lot more sense in human lives<\/i>, on both sides.<\/p>\n

(via InstaPundit<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You can probably debate some of the assumptions, but the University of Chicago study summarized here certainly seems to make a case that not only does this war make more…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9483,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/28\/let_it_burn.html","url_meta":{"origin":3740,"position":0},"title":"Let it burn","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 28-Jun-06 6:28am","format":false,"excerpt":"I consider myself a pretty patriotic fellow.\u00a0 I love my country, I admire the principles under which it was founded and operates.\u00a0 I do think we have something very...","rel":"","context":"In "Politics & Law"","block_context":{"text":"Politics & Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":130004,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/01\/nate-silver-on-the-chance-of-a-trump-election-8.html","url_meta":{"origin":3740,"position":1},"title":"Nate Silver on the chance of a Trump election","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 1-Mar-16 5:51pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Executive Summary: Things are screwy right now, who who the hell knows?And he's right, for a variety of correct reasons. 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