Comment Re:Cheap Mission (Score 1) 220
Have you never read an implied argument?
These are disparate expenditures. They are not related in any way. The implications were that
1) MSL was "cheap", so we should be doing more of this at the expense of the war effort.
2) War is expensive (Have you ever heard of a cheap war?)
These expenditures come from a politically negotiated budget. The implication was that somehow we should conflate expenditures on one thing with expenditures of the other. In other words, the OP was off topic and foolishly so besides.
And since this discussion is off topic, my contribution to it will end here. Babble amongst yourselves if you like.