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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: epsteinbd who wrote (41623)9/5/2002 10:35:06 AM
From: Win Smith  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
On Brilliant military campaign : before this thing is over, the US could suffer as many deaths as during its civil war. So if America decides not to intervene and wait for the ugly guy to die naturally, I'd be the first to say that it is a sound policy. In my best judgement.

Oops, sorry for the delayed reply. I had to look that up. There were over 600,000 soldiers killed in the US civil war. More than the total of all US deaths in all the other wars it's fought. The odds of that many even being deployed in Iraq are remote. If the current war promoters made mention of a chance of even 1/10th that number of US casualties, I think popular support would be very thin, and quite properly so.

On the other hand, going from Gulf War I, it is very possible that Iraqi deaths could be in 6 figure territory. The majority of those will probably be people whose worst sin was to accept being drafted , rather than being shot. And I would find it quite amazing if more than 1 in 1000 or so of those killed have even the remotest connection to al Qaeda and the 9/11 attack. There might conceivably be a connection in the nether world of spies and internal security agencies, though even there the evidence presented so far seems . . . shaky. But those aren't the people that are going to taking the brunt of the war.

Sorry about misinterpreting your gloss of Kennedy. I get a little sensitive about the collaborationist label being thrown around at anybody who doubts whatever "war early and often" line is being promoted at the moment.
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