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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
For perspective - since the AP doesn't have any - might I just chime in and point out that the U.S. death toll was 3,289 in the only 113 DAY Spanish-American War?
Now, for more overly grim no-context statistics, let's turn to Reuters....
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Incredibly enough, Americans have become conditioned to expect that the death toll in a war now will be lower than it was a century ago.
It's weird -- Americans have this notion that superpower status, tanks, flak jackets, jets, APCs, and a vast range of other very expensive military technology is supposed to accomplish something.
It's like no one was paying attention, back in 2002 and 2003, when the Bush Administration repeatedly told people to expect that the war and occupation would last five or seven years, that thousands of Americans would die, and that the cost would approach a trillion dollars. The Admin knew all of this, told the American people, and the American people supported the war -- so stop complaining!
Caveat emptor, I say.
