Quagmirocity
James Taranto in today's Best of the Web:
"Not One Quagmire, but Two" reads the headline of an editorial in today's Des Moines Register. The subheadline: "Americans are dying in Afghanistan, too."Actually, the word for a conflict in which soldiers die is not quagmire but war. The Register complains that "more than 60" U.S. servicemen have died in Afghanistan "since the initial U.S.-led attack some 20 months ago." All patriotic Americans mourn their loss--but this is roughly 1/50th the number of people who died on U.S. soil some 22 months ago in an attack directed from Afghanistan. In Afghanistan and Iraq, the paper carps, "what is left now are two war-torn countries in the Middle East that can be breeding grounds for chaos, violence and terrorism." And what pray tell would be there had America not intervened?
Posted by Matt at July 2, 2003 3:21 PM
