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No, not at all. Perhaps it was the financial interests of some corporations, but the majority of the U.S. economy has suffered because of this war. War, in essence, is the vast transfer of capital and resources away from the productive economy into a non-productive entity: the U.S. military. Of course we need an army, and it is the legitimate and moral duty of the government to protect us, but war is not good for the general economy. That is a myth!