Casualties affecting american policies

This past month “Operation: Iraqi Freedom” began. With any American Military operation it seemed as if there was no room for casualties among the headlines, and if there were, by god someone’s head would roll. The feeling of having no casualties is quite possibly the most idiotic and profound feeling toward military operations of any kind in the last twenty years. How the public views this directly affects how the government of the United States of America conducts its business.

Ever since the Vietnam War the general feeling that the American public gave off concerning casualties during any sort of conflict was “Not our boys.” This may have just been a by-product of watching the body bags being offloaded in Florida after Vietnam, but how it stuck out in the minds of so many for so long is unbelievable. More unbelievable is how the public began to follow the beating drum of “Not our boys” which makes me wonder how anyone could even imagine a war, or conflict without any...