casualties happen during wars. it is a fact of war. Suffering less casualties than during a Championship Basketball riot is not a big deal. Not to diminish the pain of the families and friends, just diminish the crazy whining about one dead Marine.
Semper Fi, guys! Kill all the terrorists you can. Just remember that if they are dead, you don't have to read them their Miranda rights.
http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2009/07/marine_meb_070109w/
NAWA, Afghanistan -- Marines suffered their first casualties of a massive new military campaign Thursday as they engaged in sporadic gunbattles along 55 miles of Taliban-controlled heartland in southern Afghanistan.One Marine was killed and several others were injured or wounded on the first full day of the assault, the largest military operation in Afghanistan since the fall of Taliban government in 2001.
The offensive will test the Obama administration's new strategy of holding territory and letting the Afghan government sink roots in Helmand province. The insurgency has proven particularly resilient in this area, where foreign troops have never before operated in such large numbers.
President Barack Obama told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday that he has a "very narrow definition of success when it comes to our national security interests" in the region. "And that is that al-Qaida and its affiliates cannot set up safe havens from which to attack Americans."
"I think we can measure it by whether or not they've got training camps where people are coming in and getting trained in explosives, being sent out and directed in carrying out terrorist activity," Obama said in Washington.
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