This post, The Gutless Pacifist: Hiroshima and Nagasaki has a comment by Cory that has this phrase in it:

the price is never too high for other people to pay

I think of this often when I hear people use that phrase “paying the price”; when I hear Bush say it , and realizing that not only does he not qualify on the basis of milatary heroism (as contradictory as that term often is), nor , more importantly, on the basis of who we are “causing” to “pay that price”. And the “benefits” we reap is that “way of life” which I have sickened of hearing. Bush implored us to “not let the terrorists win” by “shopping , going on vacations”. That’s indicative of “our way of life”. Our vacations and shopping for the lives of Iraqis, and the victims of the conflict our government has stirred.