Perspective

Something to keep in mind as the anniversary media blitz continues-

Here’s a not-so-fun fact: The number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan has already surpassed the death toll of 9/11.

On Sunday — while Americans (and this site) enjoyed a long weekend of drinking booze and grilling meats — the “War on Terror” military toll reached 2,974 and then kept right on going. In three separate attacks across Iraq, six U.S. soldiers were shot dead or blown up. A seventh soldier suffered a “non hostile” death.

The official death toll of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks was 2,973...

...And this month, the Iraq War has officially lasted longer than America’s war against the Nazis.

The war in Afghanistan has now dragged on longer than the American Civil War, the Korean War, the War of 1812, the Spanish-American war and America’s involvement in World War I and World War II.

Those death totals, of course, don't include the tens of thousands of civilians killed.

Has this been worth it? I doubt I could be convinced that it has.