2,000 American Military Deaths in Iraq
Not exactly Asia (well, Iraq is SW Asia, but that's still outside the agenda of this blog), but my latest op-ed on the US casualties in Iraq is up:
Predictably, the mainstream media is talking up the "milestone" of the 2,000th American military death in Iraq to portray the struggle as a useless, costly quagmire.Read more at RealClearPolitics.
According to Iraq Coalition Casualty Count, the total number of American military deaths in Iraq, including non-battle deaths, now stands at 2002 in approximately 32 months of combat from March 2003 to October 2005.It is often said that these deaths are not simply statistics. They are real faces and lives, each with its own story and family. Yet we do rely on statistics sometimes, because they offer a sense of scale...