What is "costs"

Usage examples of "costs".

And many of the most thoughtful advocates of deterrence of Iraq argue that just as the United States abjured rollback of the USSR during the Cold War because of the fear of the costs of doing so, we should abstain from regime change in Iraq for the same reasons.

It is also unclear from the polls to what extent the public understands how much force would likely be required to oust Saddam or the potential costs of doing so.

United States would be unwilling to tolerate high costs, and particularly heavy casualties, to liberate Kuwait.

Likewise, many parents, especially in rural areas, stopped sending their children to school because they were needed to work or find food and because the costs of clothing, transportation, and school supplies were too high.

United States that will have to bear the serious costs, Blair is willing to go along if we are serious enough to do it right.

In the end, all would likely go along with a military campaign if the United States made clear its commitment and willingness to pay the costs and rebuild Iraq afterward.

If we could forgo the costs of a major invasion by relying on a revitalized containment program that we could be confident would last for many more years, there would be a strong case for doing so.

These secondary sanctions would have to be truly draconian to drive up the costs of smuggling so high that no oil company or arms maker, nor any country with such industries, would want to take the risk of being caught.

Then there would be the costs of lost trade as a result of either retaliations for the secondary sanctions or similar unfair trade practices by other countries, which would use our actions to justify their own.

On top of these financial costs, we would also face the diplomatic costs of fighting with our trade partners over the secondary sanctions, fighting constantly in the Security Council over Washington usurping the prerogatives of the United Nations, and resisting French, Russian, and Chinese efforts to make us pay a price for our unilateralism.

Finally, there would be the domestic political costs of sustaining such a policy, including an Arab-American population that would grow increasingly more unhappy with seemingly endless U.

In the abstract, this seems like a reasonable approach and one that avoids the trap of inspections and the high costs of regime change.

The United States could build a new containment regime centered on a set of punishing secondary sanctions that imposed real costs on those who buy Iraqi oil illegally and sell Baghdad prohibited military and dual-use items.

Finally, the economic costs of rebuilding Iraq are going to remain the same regardless of how Saddam falls.

It might be somewhat more costly in financial terms, but since the reconstruction of Iraq is expected to dwarf the costs of any military campaign and we would have to pay for that regardless of how we handled the overthrow, these costs too are mostly irrelevant.