The broken window fallacy simply demonstrates that there is an opportunity cost to going to war, not that it's unsustainable. Depressingly it actually is pretty

The broken window fallacy simply demonstrates that there is an opportunity cost to going to war, not that it's unsustainable. Depressingly it actually is pretty sustainable for the American economy. There's also an enormous opportunity cost to not spending money on young men in the military too - and just dumping them on the street, with a job market that cannot absorb all of them. The US actually already did that once. In 2003. A large group of young, heavily armed men who have really only been trained how to kill were suddenly without income or purpose. That story demonstrated the opportunity cost of suddenly packing up the military and sending them all home without a job.