Posted by
Philly Joe on Thursday, September 14, 2006 6:10:21 PM
Some are beginning to celebrate in advance that the number of dead in Iraq and Afghanistan will soon equal the number killed on 9-11. The number we should compare to, however, is the number who would have been killed had we done nothing, a number we can never know.
Had someone done something about the Nazis in the early days of their regime, as soon as they violated the treaties putting World War on hold, perhaps there would have been no resumption of hostilities and upwards of 50 Million people would have been able to live out their natural lives. The problem is, however small the number killed in the confrontation, some would view it as a total waste because the number of lives saved would forever remain unknown.
So I consider the above an exercise in partisanship on a level to which only fanatics would stoop and by which only fools would be influenced.
Joe