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The original quote you're thinking of is this one, I presume: "Each Javelin round costs $80,000, and the idea that it’s fired by a guy who doesn’t make that in
by toomanybeersies 10y ago
The original quote you're thinking of is this one, I presume:
"Each Javelin round costs $80,000, and the idea that it’s fired by a guy who doesn’t make that in a year at a guy who doesn’t make that in a lifetime is somehow so outrageous it almost makes the war seem winnable.”
- cmdkeen 10y agoA scrimmage in a Border Station- A canter down some dark defile Two thousand pounds of education Drops to a ten-rupee jezail. As Kipling put it the last time we were in that part of the world. The Western militarys spend the $80,000 because whilst the soldier firing it may not make $80,000 in a year the cost to recruit and train, as well as the future economic worth of the citizen, is far greater.
- roryisok 10y agogreat quote.
- eloff 10y agoI love that quote. Somehow it just highlights the irrationality of it all.