Casualties of War - It's

Casualties of War - It's almost specious to point this out, but here goes:

In 1991, we lost 147 dead in four days of fighting; about a quarter of them were "friendly fire" deaths.

Today, in almost three weeks of land combat, we've lost about eighty dead. Half are due to accidents, according to the military.

We've lost two fixed-wing aircraft in action (one of them a Brit shot down by a US Patriot battery) and three (if I recall correctly) helicopters to enemy fire. In 1991, we lost more than a dozen in the month we were in action; the Brits alone lost five Tornadoes, and the Italians lost another.

In exchange - the war seems nearly at an end, as opposed to the very limited goals we won in '91.

Just to keep things in perspective.