Quote Originally Posted by Deborski View Post
Good point... and I hate to say it, but today's wars seem quite mercenary to me.
Mercenary war usually does not create mass protest even it the casualties high because all the soldiers are volunteers. And American casualties in modern wars are negligible (less than of a similar group of civilians). I think during assault on Libya the US did not loose a single soldier with several tens of thousand killed from the Libyan side.