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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Terrorists or insurgents? The graph deals with military dead, and thus probably ought to be discussed in the context of military insurgency. The same people (or at least some of them) are responsible for acts of terror against civilians, too, but those aren't shown in the graph. And then there's the murky middle ground: if you kill a dozen people who wanted to join the army/police force opposing yours, was it terrorism or a preemptive military strike? In any case, this rate of casualties appears unsustainable from the US point of view, as it no longer ranks so far below the levels of losses in previous US military conflicts. It probably will not start to have an actual military impact any time soon, though (apart from discouraging people from enlisting - but wars also encourage enlisting; what's the balance nowadays?). Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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