Kansas City Faith Blogger Considers 'Costs Of War' & Legacy Of 9/11

A local scribe ponders the implications of a conflict that defines the modern era and scary consequences that inspired our Republican friends to abandon their Neo-Con hawkish foreign policy stance . . . 

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What many of us fail to realize is the long-term cost of war, especially in terms of human life.

A new report from the "Costs of War" project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs, for instance, describes the carnage that the post-9/11 wars have cost humanity -- what the report calls "indirect deaths." From the link I've given you it's possible to click on separate links to get you to the full report or just to the executive summary.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

The human costs of war are so vast as to be nearly incalculable

In the Hebrew Bible book of Isaiah (2:4), there's this wildly aspirational vision of a world without the scourge of war: "(God) shall judge between the nations, and shall arbitrate for many peoples; they shall beat their swords into plowshares,...