Are Our Soldiers Dying in Vain?

by Will Wilkinson on July 23, 2007

I think Obama stumbled so badly because he was trying not to utter the stupdity Edwards uttered just after him. For Edwards, I guess, death is never in vain as long as you signed up to follow orders, possibly in completely pointless wars.

TStockmann

You could be more hard-hearted and say that each American soldier's death makes it a little less likely that America will engage in similar invasions, at least for a period of time - not meaningless, simply unintended. If Iraq had been more coimpletely pacified with relatively light American casualties, then my guess is that we could have expected a sequel in short order.