Pretty heavy demolition costs. I remember seeing a docu on Lebanon where the Falange were shelling a part of Beirut while simultaneously looking over plans for what they were going to put in place of the destroyed buildings. "We'll put the Burger King here, the mall over there" etc. This war will certainly be a blessing for those who want to make every city in the world look like Muncy Indiana.
BTW, the World Court yesterday wimped out and ruled against Yugoslavia in its charge of genocide against NATO. It ruled on a technicality that Yugoslavia is not a member of the UN and is thus not in its jurisdiction. The Court threw out other charges made against the U.S. on grounds that the U.S. *had opted out of an important genocide convention in the U.N. charter on which Belgrade's case was based.* NATO did not argue the case on its merits, it instead challenged the jurisdiction of the World Court. But what would you expect? Law experts quoted in the National Post agreed that Belgrade had a very strong case and would certainly have won if the case had been argued on its merits.
Sam Pawlett