In an interview published in the Hoover Digest, Condoleezza Rice was asked if the war in Iraq was worth it. Question to Rice: A simple last question on Iraq. We invade in 2003. The last troops come home in December 2011. There are different ways of accounting for it, but between those two dates, we spend at least $800 billion. We suffer more than 4,400 killed and more than 31,000 wounded. Estimates of Iraqis killed vary widely, but they seem to center on about 100,000. It is an immensely expensive and bloody conflict. Was it worth it? In her answer … Continue reading A Strategic Trade-Up