Logic that defies logic

"I'm not going to allow the sacrifice of 2,527 troops who have died in Iraq to be in vain."

So of course you do that by sending more and more off to endless slaughter, a never-ending killing machine. Or perhaps it is a perverse kind of Ponzi scheme? In the classic scheme, monies from new "investors" pay off the earlier ones. Here new blood "honors" blood previously shed.

The scheme finally collapses when not enough new investors/soldiers are willing to take the sucker bet and part with their money or their life.