Comments on: More US Troops Deaths than 9/11 Deaths http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2006/09/03/more-us-troops-deaths-than-911-deaths/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:12:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Raven Daegmorgan http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2006/09/03/more-us-troops-deaths-than-911-deaths/comment-page-1/#comment-165292 Raven Daegmorgan Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:44:00 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2006/09/03/more-us-troops-deaths-than-911-deaths/#comment-165292 The point is examining the insanity of the diminishing returns of violence, in losing more men fighting a war than were lost in the (falsely claimed) cause of the war and which could be expected to be lost later by not going to war. It's not about exact numbers--"Oh, we lost more men doing some other thing than we did this"--it's a simple cost-benefit analysis. If your neighbor's dog kills your cat, do you gather up your family and assault him in his yard and not stop even though he's knocked out your daughter's teeth, broken your son's arm, and you've escalated to putting a stake through his wife's heart? Especially if you knew it was some stray who actually killed your cat and not your neighbor's dog? It forces us to ask: how have those deaths served to give meaning to the deaths of those lost in the 9/11 terrorist attack? Or are we just piling pointless death and misery on-top-of pointless death and misery? The point is examining the insanity of the diminishing returns of violence, in losing more men fighting a war than were lost in the (falsely claimed) cause of the war and which could be expected to be lost later by not going to war. It’s not about exact numbers–”Oh, we lost more men doing some other thing than we did this”–it’s a simple cost-benefit analysis.

If your neighbor’s dog kills your cat, do you gather up your family and assault him in his yard and not stop even though he’s knocked out your daughter’s teeth, broken your son’s arm, and you’ve escalated to putting a stake through his wife’s heart? Especially if you knew it was some stray who actually killed your cat and not your neighbor’s dog?

It forces us to ask: how have those deaths served to give meaning to the deaths of those lost in the 9/11 terrorist attack? Or are we just piling pointless death and misery on-top-of pointless death and misery?

]]> By: jay http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2006/09/03/more-us-troops-deaths-than-911-deaths/comment-page-1/#comment-83448 jay Sat, 22 Dec 2007 17:00:54 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2006/09/03/more-us-troops-deaths-than-911-deaths/#comment-83448 We lost more troops on D-Day in Europe than the years we've been in Iraq. We are in a "war" people need to stop whinning. We lost more troops on D-Day in Europe than the years we’ve been in Iraq. We are in a “war” people need to stop whinning.

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