Sunday, March 23, 2008
4000
Four U.S. soldiers were killed when their vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device while patrolling a neighborhood in southern Baghdad on Sunday. This event brought the death toll of U.S. soldiers to the grim milestone of 4000. It is somewhat of a coincidence that this event coincided so closely with the five year anniversary of the war, which took place on March 19. As the death toll continues to rise, support of the war across the nation continues to fall. It seems like we are involved in less of an occupation and more of a war, for our troops don’t seem to be making much progress. Whatever it is that we are involved in doesn’t seem to have a clear or easy end in sight. Are you all mostly in support of the war, completely against it, or somewhere in between? What do you think we should do in regard to the rising casualties and the ineffectiveness of current strategies? In my opinion, 4000 deaths is beyond too many, especially when it turned out that the country we were invading didn’t even pose a serious threat to national security.
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Well, I hate to agree with the war in anyway at all, but 4,000 deaths is relatively low, considering we're calling it a war. It's obviously more than what anyone would want (0), but if you compare it to most other wars, I would expect 4,000 to be quite low. Seeing as we're pretty much occupying all of our enemy's country, it seems like the war should be considered over, and this would be more of an occupation or policing of the country.
Yes but as we have discussed in class Stalin once said: "A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." And while 4,000 isn't even close to 1,000,000 it is hard to ignore the impact it has had on people. The number 4,000 is just what I said, a number. But if you think about it that's 4,000 parents, or children, or aunts, or uncles, or cousins. I think that it is hard to rationalize these deaths, and while I understand that we cannot simply drop everything in the middle east and pull out, we must start thinking of ways to end this war or occupation.
I agree with Derek.
And not only that, but the fact that there is so much money being put into the war; I know it's a cliche, but it's really true.
Human life, and monetary value, are too important to be taken so lightly by our current government.
Here's a link to a story on the cost of the Iraq war:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11880954/
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