I think they would. You would need to have them sign an agreement (as well as Israel). If they violated this agreement, then sure, the USA could be justified in taking military action.
However, painting them as savages and approaching it with a "bomb them back to the stone age" mindset isn't helpful. You'd think after 20+ years we would have learned this lesson.
Given "a bookkeeping exercise that had no effect on the price the Pentagon paid overall", I'd propose "it saved time, which costs taxpayers money".
Given the hammer was actually $15, there's presumably a corresponding item that's also listed at $600 for ease of accounting that normally costs something like $1,200. "Pentagon gets 50% off computer monitor" is a less exciting headline, though.
Layman here: what are the consequences of having a net worth of accumulated fiscal year-end bank balances of twice the "not insignificant amount of funds"?
On the face of it, it looks like you have twice the liquid net worth than you actually have (or more with multiple countries). Often financial statements will be prepared by different accounting firms in different countries, and each set says you had the same amount of money on hand on the same date, even though you only had one. It is not so much a delusion of wealth as a delusion of time. When people refer to a date (such as a fiscal year end), they think that date is the same everywhere but of course midnight on December 31st happens in every one of the 24+ time zones.
Interesting! But I took a closer look at the source behind those statistics and it's consistent with the California data I posted.
It turns out there are seven states with very dangerous metro areas (Missouri, Illinois, Maryland, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana) and eight states with dangerous metro areas (South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Indiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Nevada). The remaining states are much safer, with metro rates comparable to the nationwide nonmetro average.
Some of that matches with the conventional wisdom (e.g. Chicago is dangerous), but I think those nationwide statistics are quite deceptive. I think it's quite interesting that a California metro area is safer than a California nonmetro area, and both are nearly twice as safe as a Louisiana metro.
I really like this theory, especially because it accounts for the varying hole sizes, adjoined balls, and the 12 sides and 30 edges that only a dodecahedron could provide. None of the other theories account for all of these unique attributes.
The mental floss article mentions one was found on a decayed staff. The knitting theory seems like it could be fulfilled with a far simpler instrument IMHO.
If you look at modern shortcut knitting equipment like knittingboard.com it looks pretty similar. It sounds more and more like shark tank gadget of the roman empire.
