What if there had been no Iraq war?

In a letter (“End war in Iraq, for rebate’s sake,” April 20), a reader calculated the income tax rebate to each American if an estimated $3-trillion debt for the current war had not been generated.

Perhaps as enlightening is that such a sum is equivalent to $60,000 per person in Iraq and Afghanistan. An Iraqi family of five with $300,000, for example, would be rich almost anywhere in the world.

Drop money, not bombs?

Lewis Cohen

Riverside