For over a week now, the United States, France, and Britain have been bombing Libya with cruise missiles, B-2 stealth bombers, F-16 and F-15 fighter jets, and Harrier attack jets. There is no reliable estimate of the number of civilians killed. We know we have spent over $500 million dollars on this violence, and more is added to that total every day.  There is no estimate, as usual of the environmental damage and pollution being caused by these bombings either, but it must be a huge amount. Will the Libyan people who supposedly requested our intervention reimburse us for the use of our military? They should. In his New York Times last week, columnist Bob Herbert talked about these things and more in his final column, in which he decided to lay it all out for us. In the United States, we have some strange priorities. Our government feels that saving other people in other countries is more important than helping Americans who in many cases desperately need help. Cost of war is no object. Yet in America, unemployment is still high, people are still suffering from food insecurity, and thousands have lost their homes in the last few years [...]