Quote Originally Posted by Stu-6 View Post
This reminded me of an interview I once heard with a guy had been a F-105 pilot in Vietnam he add up the cost of a few sorties of fighters vs the cost of the few small boats or trucks that they would destroy. Concluding that part of our problem there was that our bottom line was so out of line with our enemy.
Yup. Robb's big on talking about ROI (return on investment), isn't he? The figure that always gets me, don't remember where I got it but it was somewhere reputable, was that 9/11 cost Al Qaeda about $500,000 and did, at conservative estimates, $500 billion in damage to the U.S. economy.