First Draft - Holy Shit!: "I agree with the troll who said this isn't, exactly, comperable in scale to Civil war casualties. But I also agree with the poster who pointed out that the casual contempt for the lives of our soldiers and their families encoded in that cheery dismissal is disgusting. I've said this elsewhere on this same subject, its a quote from one of Lois Bujold's Vorkosigan books 'Lives don't add as integers, they add as infinities.' Every one of the dead, on both 'sides' of this sideless, incoherent, conflict adds as an infinity of loss to someone. More or less than the Civil war? More or Less than Vietnam? Averaged? By percentages? by time? by heat? I don't care. But add them by sorrow? Add them by love and hope lost, by demolished futures, by weeping children? Then, indeed, this is comperable to the Civil War, to Vietnam, and to all conflicts.
Mission Accomplished, indeed.
aimai"
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