July 31, 2005

Who's Paying for Our Patriotism?

Link: Who's Paying for Our Patriotism?.

An op-ed by Uwe E. Reinhardt:

At most, 500,000 American troops are at risk of being deployed to these war theaters at some time. Assume that for each of them some 20 members of the wider family sweat with fear when they hear that a helicopter crashed in Afghanistan or that X number of soldiers or Marines were killed or seriously wounded in Iraq. It implies that no more than 10 million Americans have any real emotional connection to these wars.

Posted by Anupam Chander on July 31, 2005 at 10:27 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink