ToutSuite wrote:


Bob McNamara was Secretary of Defense under LBJ, and staffed his office with RAND men, whose job it was to help the former Ford exec calculate the cost of war in American lives vs. the goal of defeating a communist take-over of Vietnam. It was as close to the P-and-L breakdown you seemed to be advocating in your post as has been seen in modern warfare, and led to expansion of a war even McNamara knew at the time we weren't going to win.

Before we put the fate of tens of thousands of young American lives into the hands of accountants, we might want to try as hard as we can to remember the past. And if we can't manage to look back thirty-five whole years, well, gee, maybe we can just hit the rewind button for and go back two years to Enron, WorldCom, etc., etc....