June 30, 2006
Not Forgotten in the Plenitude of Death
Iraq War Ends Silently for One American Soldier, by Dexter Filkins
Death comes often to the soldiers and marines who are fighting in Anbar Province, which is roughly the size of Louisiana and is the most intractable region in Iraq. Almost every day, an American soldier is killed somewhere in Anbar — in Ramadi, in Haditha, in Falluja, by a sniper, by a roadside bomb, or as with Sergeant Lisk, by a mortar shell. In the first 27 days of June, 27 soldiers and marines were killed here.
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June 30th, 2006 at 12:01 pm
i’ll bet more died in louisiana in the same time frame than in anbar province. but i have to admit it’s a good amd time-honored debating/propaganda technique to add’em up.
do you/we have any idea how many soldiers died in ww1 or ww2 every 24 hours? this is why we have tried the gambit of rebuilding while we’re still at war. it looks dopey. george patton would have pissed his pants, but it’s our new media-mediated, tree-hugging war technique. and it’s actually working, against all odds. even shi’as are amazed, and i worked amongst them in iran and know their historically deep, deep scepticism they would ever get a break anywhere in arab lands. even “amurakun” detractors will have to admit it in due course. yes they will.
June 30th, 2006 at 1:19 pm
deuxsous: No one in LA died from roadside bombs, sniper fire, or mortar shells. One number that added up, day by day: 58,148 (Americans killed in Vietnam).
June 30th, 2006 at 4:20 pm
Forget American casualties. What about the thousands and thousands of innocent dead Iraqis. Or does the average American believe there are no innocent Iraqis?
June 30th, 2006 at 9:21 pm
Speed: Yes, I also keep an eye on the Iraq Body Count as well.
July 1st, 2006 at 8:00 am
Excellent, Chairman, I was looking for that url.
July 1st, 2006 at 12:21 pm
forget about poor iraqi civilians? it’s not about toting up numbers or forgetting about them. it’s not about numerology and nostalgic viet nam plaintiveness expressed as cultured angst. war is about killing enemies before we all get killed as at WTC I and II. regrettably, the enemies know that their best bet is to fight amongst innocent bystanders in iraq and everywhere else so that we will all vomit and capitulate and then go about our cool upscale business as if nothing happened. maybe we’ll even learn arabic or read the koran. it’s a good technique in an age of uncommitted trust baby wimps who hate their own cultures. terrorists know their enemies well. we seemingly haven’t a clue.
July 1st, 2006 at 3:05 pm
deuxsous: Zhlubya is the ultimate “trust baby wimp.” He got us into this mess (with the help of the KKK — Kristol Kagen Krauthammer — and the rest of the New American Century crowd). 9/11 was an outlier event and the invasion of Iraq had nothing to do with preventing terrorism.
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