Fox 14 (here)
Projection, circa 2004:
peace-nic: These wars are extracting a terrible price from our troops.
fox bloviator: What are you talking about? Compared to previous wars, hardly any troops are dying.
peace-nic: You need to look beyond the "deaths" column. Tremendous advances in body armor and trauma care mean that soldiers who would have died in previous wars are surviving. But they survive with lost limbs or eyes, traumatic brain injury, severe burns, PTSD, etc. The price they pay is still terrible.
fox bloviator: Oh. You just want more of our troops to die.
peace-nic:
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- bill 9-19-2011 12:41 pm
Projection, circa 2004:
peace-nic: These wars are extracting a terrible price from our troops.
fox bloviator: What are you talking about? Compared to previous wars, hardly any troops are dying.
peace-nic: You need to look beyond the "deaths" column. Tremendous advances in body armor and trauma care mean that soldiers who would have died in previous wars are surviving. But they survive with lost limbs or eyes, traumatic brain injury, severe burns, PTSD, etc. The price they pay is still terrible.
fox bloviator: Oh. You just want more of our troops to die.
peace-nic:
- mark 9-21-2011 1:47 am