To put the WOT casualties in perspective -

More Americans were killed or wounded before breakfast during just ONE Civil War battle - Cold Harbor - Than have died in Afghanistan and Iraq combined. Not to tarnish or downplay the role our soldiers played IN Afghanistan or Iraq, BUT whereas today any battle - of ANY size - that sustains more than a 10% casualty rate is called a bloodbath and we haven't had any battles - so far thank God - that involved an entire Battalion let alone a division or a corps yet. Should we get embroiled in something that large and somehow wind up suffering around 10% casualties it would be considered a major bloodbath and our ruthlessly fickle, obtuse and militarily ignorant politicians would be demanding American general's heads on a platter - even generals they previously supported! However, back in those days losing 20 or 30,000 men was called "fighting a battle." In today's hypersensitive political environment, would somebody like Grant last long enough for his grand strategy to have allowed Sherman to destroy Atlanta, tear ass through Georgia and South Carolina and force so many Confederates to quit the war that there was no longer any possibility the South could win? Hell no! If we lived by the Oprahfonic Code back then as we do today, McClellen would still building a massive army with no particular plans to use it, we'd be having another 12-year Hiatus for sanctions "to work" and Hans Blix would be trundling across Northern Alabama while ploughing through tens of thousands of invoices, manifests and emails looking for the "smoking gun" of current slave-trading practices for the UN to ponder while they slap the Confederacy with another round of useless - and in a lot of cases terminal (once they began taking niacin out of corn and rice for preservation purposes, causing a disease called Pellagra that has a 100% fatality rate) - sanctions on the CSA.

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