2007-09-17 10:03:24 · 7 answers · asked by soperson 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
You cannot determine success or failure in warfare by casualties alone. And you most certainly can't determine if we're losing if you are not willing to make comparisons.
I can almost garauntee you that we've killed many more terrorists than they have killed of us. But, if I were to play by the same rules that you are, I guess 3000 Americans to 100,000+ Terrorists dead/imprisoned is success.
2007-09-17 10:14:33 · answer #1 · answered by King_aaron 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
And our losses in WW2 were a lot less before D-Day as compared to after D-Day.
And the French losses were minimal after they surrendered.
So, to any logical person, there is no meaningful conclusion to be drawn simply by looking at casualty rates, except that anybody who uses them to determine success has gotta be some kind of moonbat.
2007-09-17 17:19:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Could you post a link to that, I'd sure like to see it in writing. In my opinion, .000000000000001% body bag rate is excessive, as the whole thing is a waste. We have absolutely unequivically NO busness in Iraq. It's a no brainer. Of course you hear the fan club here trained to oppose any such reality. As long as we remain there, there will be such accounting. Along with...
Iraq expels American security firm By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writer
54 minutes ago
BAGHDAD - The Iraqi government Monday ordered Blackwater USA, the security firm that protects U.S. diplomats, to stop work and leave the country after the fatal shooting of eight Iraqi civilians following a car bomb attack against a State Department convoy.
The order by the Interior Ministry, if carried out, would deal a severe blow to U.S. government operations in Iraq by stripping diplomats, engineers, reconstruction officials and others of their security protection.
The presence of so many visible, aggressive Western security contractors has angered many Iraqis, who consider them a mercenary force that runs roughshod over people in their own country.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070917/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_070916185971
to give the Iraqis hopes and dashed expectations.
As a side note, we're now approaching the hallmark of 1.2 million http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2170237,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=12
or so dead Iraqis on our hands. How many more will it take?
2007-09-17 17:22:05 · answer #3 · answered by oldmechanicsrule 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's successful if most of the bags contain dead Islamofascist terrorists.
2007-09-17 17:09:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Counting the number of dead is not a measure of success or failure.
2007-09-17 17:08:12 · answer #5 · answered by regerugged 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Why don't you tell us what the bodybag count is on the other side?
2007-09-17 17:09:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
way to focus on the positive there skipper.
2007-09-17 17:12:46 · answer #7 · answered by Mark A 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋