Comments on: Gateway Pundit: Still a Lying Sack of Shit

By: mel

mel — Sun, 27 May 2007 05:34:27 +0000

MB, good catch. The day we stop teaching our children that facts are the playthings of the gods will be exactly one generation from the day that shit like what GP pulls becomes bad form.

And JEM, that kind of rationalization (really, just a tight collection of fallacies) is what keeps us on this fucking merry-go-round.

By: meatbrain

meatbrain — Thu, 24 May 2007 21:09:04 +0000

“Agreed that the numbers aren’t apples-to-apples, but one point is still valid – the casualty rate in Iraq and Afghanistan is tiny compared to past conflicts and absolutely minuscule relative to the US population.”

Well, that makes it all right, then. As long as the death rate (not “casualty rate”, that’s something different!) is “miniscule”, we can keep sending Americans into the meatgrinder that is Iraq, and keep bringing them back in body bags, yes?

It’ll all be fine. Since we ~~don’t~~ can’t see the caskets of returning soldiers killed in this war, we really don’t have to bother our pretty little heads about how many are dying over there.

By: JEM

JEM — Thu, 24 May 2007 20:41:07 +0000

Agreed that the numbers aren’t apples-to-apples, but one point is still valid – the casualty rate in Iraq and Afghanistan is tiny compared to past conflicts and absolutely minuscule relative to the US population.

The real problem is that with the repeated deployments of our small combat force it’s the same guys who keep getting shot at. The burden isn’t spread around.

The question since Vietnam has always been whether, and if so under what conditions and for what kind of causes, this country could ever tolerate significant casualties in a shooting war. It’s still an open issue.