Perspective

I just can't take the Chicken Littles seriously when they speak of Iraq as a horrific quagmire that we're going to lose. Have they total ignorance of military history? Here's a nice summary of the Battle of the Bulge which started 60 years ago today.

Note:

Before it was over, the Battle of the Bulge would involve three German armies, the equivalent of 29 divisions; three American armies, or 31 divisions; and three British divisions augmented by Belgian, Canadian and French troops.

More than a million men would be drawn into the battle. The Germans would lose an estimated 100,000 irreplaceable troops, counting their killed, wounded and captured; the Americans would suffer some 80,000 casualties, including 19,000 killed - that's a rate of 500 a day - and 23,554 captured.