Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: GJones2
> It’s been many years [since the Iraq invasion], but I doubt that we’ve accumulated the number we lost on that one day [9-11].)

I see that in nearly a decade and a half the total is several thousand more than I'd thought (I repeat, compared to that single day). Each loss in combat, of course, matters to the family and friends, and to others who feel sympathy for them. I lost a family member in a war myself, and it has greatly affected my own life, but to put the Iraq and Afghanistan wars in the context of other wars (and taking into account population):

War combat deaths

[The American Prospect, whether a reliable site or not, the numbers are probably close enough to give an approximation]

27 posted on 10/20/2017 11:15:07 PM PDT by GJones2 (Is isolationism safe -- should Saddam have been overthrown?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies ]


To: Texas Fossil

ping


28 posted on 10/20/2017 11:32:44 PM PDT by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the SEALs of Extortion 17 - and God Bless The United States of America.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson