WHAT would the reaction be if someone were to build a bonfire of £240,000 and then set fire to it?
Most people would be horrified and wonder at the sanity of the person behind such expensive destruction.
Yet £240,000 was the cost when two Apache helicopters attacked, and destroyed, a coastal-radar station and a flak-wagon in Libya recently.
How come just two helicopters managed to “spend” £240,000 by attacking a small radar-installation and a flak-wagon?
They fired a total of six “Hellfire” guided-missiles, each one costing £40,000.
Why does a flying bomb have to cost such a huge amount when it is going to explode and completely destroy, not only the target it was aimed at, but also itself?
So far “Cameron’s Folly” (the Libyan War) has cost £75 million, rapidly growing at £6 million a week.
With Hellfires costing £40,000 a pop, this sum will rapidly escalate, and for what?
Philip Roe, Roman Avenue South, Stamford Bridge, York.
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