Reply #16: You don't think so?

[txaslftist]

Oil prices would temporarily hit the roof (profitable); military equipment demand would hit the roof (profitable); ancillary military services (aka Halliburton, etc) would be in high demand (profitable)...

The same people who got filthy, filthy rich during WWI and WWII would get filthy rich off of a WWIII fought in the Middle East with other peoples' kids, count on it. As for the "destruction of everything profitable", why would you assume they care about enterprises other than their own? WWII certainly caused the destruction of everything profitable in places like Russia and Germany and Japan, but industries in the US made out like bandits.

As for the millions killed in the war, beleive me, these folks can rationalize that away like it didn't happen. Certainly they'd never take responsibility for it.