The key flaw is taking casualties to show that we are serious (i.e., as an end in itself), rather than taking casualties as a means to the end of crushing the enemy.
We could tolerate casualties at much higher levels if the enemy were being crushed. I don't want to quote Monsieur Kerry here, but I'm sure you know which of his quotes I'm thinking of.
78 posted on 09/18/2006 9:36:50 AM PDT by Jim Noble
(Something is happening here but you don't know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?)