Do you think America should have backed off going into Germany to finish the liberation of Europe in WWII because we lost more soldiers in the battle in the Ardienne Forest than when we landed at Normandy?
Compare D-Day, June 6, 1944: KIA about 9,000
Battle of the Bulge (December 16,1944, to January 25,1945)
81,000 American casualties (including 23,554 captured and 19,000 killed) and 1,400 British casualties with 200 killed.
The Battle of the Bulge was Hitler's last gasp attempt to halt the American Army and to get its generals fighting with each other rather than against Hitler.
This fight for Fallujah is our Battle of the Bulge. Do you really want us to pull out now?
"War is hell," as Sherman said.
If you think that Victory in Europe came at a high price, you should see the stats from the Pacific.
Comparing 1944-45 to today is rather silly, since this country is not on the same war footing today that we were on back then.
Did Congress and FDR enact a $500+ billion Medicare prescription drug benefit in, say, October of 1944?