Re: The big picture in Iraq tells quite a different story



On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 16:43:04 -0400, Calypso <Calypso@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


>Without this big picture, any war would appear a meaningless disaster.
>What if Americans had seen the casualty lists from Omaha Beach or
>Okinawa -- hills of sand -- without hearing about the objectives for
>which those bloody battles were fought?

A sharper question might be: what would their reaction be a year
after, say, D Day if the troops were still hung up on the beach?



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