Over on Baen's bar we did some "back of the envelope" calculations.
A million Mogadishus. Okay. Eighteen American dead. About 1000 skinnies.
Takes off shoes...
That makes eighteen million American males dead. That is very bad. That's a good part of our total available "grunt" force. If we figure on the current averages for the forces. BUT! We can use women for anything but combat arms. If you put all the women in support positions and push forward all the males into combat arms that can qualify, then you start to have a viable number to make up that eighteen million. Horrible tragedy for the US, but we can sustain it.
But the rest of the world?
That's a billion dead "wogs." I mean, first of all, we'd have to have fought _everybody_ in Latin America, Africa and Asia. And in each of the countries wiped out their males of military age between fifteen and fifty.
Hmmmm...
I don't think this guy is very smart but...
S**t happens. If that's what it takes, that's what it takes.
Oh, and based upon using _real_ forces... the ratio's going to be much more in our favor. Something like 1:1000 so we'll lose, say, a million to do it... But the third world will be having a hard time finding husbands.
Time to invest in body-bag manufacturers...
Rhetorical hyperbole by lefties that ignores basic math and basic science is the norm, like that fellow that talked about the sharks still swimming around in the Atlantic waiting to eat Africans that were thrown or leaped overboard when they were being transported for the slave trade.
That's why they are lefties, because they couldn't pass math and science and thus can't digest facts.
And that's why they are against the war, because in war, masculinity and strength and physical agility are important, and they weren't good at sports either.
All they can to is spin b.s., which they call "analysis."
They've felt pretty left out during the aftermath of 9/11 and now the war in Iraq. Policemen, firemen and military men are our heroes now, and the leftie eggheads are upset that they are not so attractive to the females right now. After all, what female ever felt protected by an analyst?