I have been enjoying (as I am sure many of you have been) the WWII documentary done by Ken Burns. I really just cannot believe, first of all how well it is done, but secondly the tolls and reality of that war.
About 3,000 people died in the 9/11 tragedy, currently just over 3,000 Americans have been killed in the Gulf War part II and about 150 died in part I. We called to have those "rag heads" decapitated when we watched the towers fall repeatedly on tv but lemented when the death toll to acommplish that started to climb over a hundred.
During WWII, that America lost sons. brothers and fathers 3,000 - 10,000 at a time. Approximately 291,557 Americans died in WWII (infoplease.com). Please remember there were a lot fewer Americans then there are now.
Would we stand for those numbers? Can we even fathom those numbers? Let's make the odds even and say what ever needed to happen that would justify the Gulf War in your head was happening except for civilian deaths beyond 9/11 (like WWII and Pearl Harbor). Would this current society accept these numbers in just 3.5 years? Of course they would not. Maybe we are the paper tiger they talk about. We certinately do not have the backbone of our forefathers when it comes to getting it done on a global scale.
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