Say It Ain't So
There's a report out tonight that American soldiers were filmed burning two dead Taliban fighters and using the charred corpses as part of a propaganda campaign.
Unfortunately, this will remind people of the desecration of the American contractors in Fallujah which so justifiably outraged many people around the world.
That American soldiers would act this way magnifies the under-reported story of the increasing death toll of American soldiers in Afghanistan. The number will almost certainly exceed 100 this for the first time during that war. Given we have approximately 10,000 troops in Afghanistan and approximately 135,000 in Iraq, an American soldier, one might be surprised to learn, is actually at a greater risk of death in Afghanistan than in Iraq.
So much for Condi's suggestion today that we ought to make Iraq more like Afghanistan.
Unfortunately, this will remind people of the desecration of the American contractors in Fallujah which so justifiably outraged many people around the world.
That American soldiers would act this way magnifies the under-reported story of the increasing death toll of American soldiers in Afghanistan. The number will almost certainly exceed 100 this for the first time during that war. Given we have approximately 10,000 troops in Afghanistan and approximately 135,000 in Iraq, an American soldier, one might be surprised to learn, is actually at a greater risk of death in Afghanistan than in Iraq.
So much for Condi's suggestion today that we ought to make Iraq more like Afghanistan.
posted by Macswain at
10:15 PM
1 Comments:
You write "an American soldier, one might be surprised to learn, is actually at a greater risk of death in Afghanistan than in Iraq."
Perhaps so, but Brit Hume would note that since Iraq and California have roughly equal land mass, one is no more apt to die in Iraq than CA.
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