dyslexia wrote:or perhaps how many people died in the bombing of Dresden? aside from being an inane question, is there a specific number of deaths you have in mind that determine the significance?
The logic of it might most easily be seen in something like Iwo Jima. Something like five or six thousand marines died taking Iwo; nonehtless, being able to use the island for emergency B29 landings and having the fighter escorts able to fly from Iwo is said to have saved something like 30,000 lives amongst airmen.
In the case of the war on islammic terrorism, something like a thousand Americans have died so far since 2002. During the 1990s, no such war on terror was being waged and the price tag for that, the true Clinton Legacy if you will, was having lower Manhatten leveled to the ground, something like 3000 innocent American civilians killed, many either burned to death or jumping to their deaths to avoid burning, and immense economic damage.
Nothing like that has recurred, and I for one believe the actions of our government to be chiefly responsible for that. I'd much rather take my chances with what has actually happened than with what clearly would have been Al Gore's rection to 9-11 had the attempted democrat coup d'etat succeeded in 2000 and he been president:
