"trotsky" wrote in message

Arny Krueger wrote:
"Lionel" wrote in message



Arny Krueger wrote:


"George M. Middius" wrote in message



"President Bush said today that the latest spate of bloodshed in
Iraq reflected the desperation of terrorists who cannot stop the
creation of a free country."


http://tinyurl.com/slic


That is to say that even though Americans and responsible Iraqis
and foreigners are getting mowed down like Custer's men at Little
Big Horn, we are winning the war.


Obviously Middius is oblivious to the events of June 6, 1944.


The enemy is bound to get tired of
slaughtering us soon, and then, of course, they'll surrender in
short order.


It actually works out that way, sometimes. Anybody who thinks that
what's going on now is a slaughter of US soldiers, is totally
lacking in historical perspective. One such person appears to be
our local hero, George Middius.


The big difference is that in Normandie 1944 the US soldiers were
considered as heroes by French people.

Another big difference is that at Normandy the US had about 10,000
casualties in one day, as opposed to dribs and drabs of one to three
per day, with some days zero, in Iraq.

That's not a valid comparison.

I agree that there isn't a 1:1 mapping.

At some point in our existence we are
going to reach the point where zero causalities is the only think
acceptable, if we haven't already.

At that point, we effectively hand the keys to our country over to the first
guy who has just one person who is willing to die.

Listening to many young soldiers talk, we're a long way from that.

In the old days dying in battle was supposed to be a thing of honor, now
it's only a waste of life.

Handing the keys to our country over to the first guy who has just one
person who is willing to die, is a waste of life that many would not
tolerate. It's quite clear that having even 19 people who were willing to
die did absolutely nothing to hurt our resolve to fight.