<Bush Forced to Defend Rising US Death Toll>
It is encouraging, that the U.S. public is far more sensitive to U.S. casualties, and to enemy civilian casualties, compared to Vietnam and WWII and earlier wars.
In the Phillipines, 100 years ago, 10,000 U.S. soldiers died suppressing the independence movement, and the war went on till we had "pacified" our colony.
In Vietnam, the war had been going on for many years, and over 10,000 U.S. soldiers had died, before large protests happened (as big as the antiwar movement mounted before the war, this time).
In WWII, the U.S. public accepted the fire-bombing of enemy cities, while such tactics are now unacceptable.
Almost makes me believe in the idea of Progress. |
