The tragic thing is that we are losing more Americans in our 5 largest cities every month than in all of Iraq.
I hate those kind of analogies. Nothing personal.
Lots of those dead Americans in the cities are scum-- drug dealers, other criminals. On the other hand, the marines are among our finest Americans.
I agree.
And it is important to remember that we still haven't lost the number that were murdered on 9/11.
And we've prevented (so far) another 9/11 or worse.
Compared to a WMD, this is a sad but necessary price to make sure a WMD sized death at a Rose Bowl doesn't happen.