Quote from Mr Parenti above
"Only 98 U.S. troops died in Afghanistan last year but the ratio of casualties to overall troop levels makes Afghanistan as dangerous as Iraq."
What does he mean ONLY 98 troops died?? We are accepting these numbers like its all trivia.Thats 98 to f
g many! Out of 98 deaths there will be in the order of 1000 injured.
I get the horrid vision that in 18 months from now we will be starting a thread on PPRuNE entitled "Bliar - We told you so"