Casualties
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One reason is that Syria has a substantial air-defense system, which would have to be suppressed by a bombing campaign – causing significant civilian
casualties
and risking the loss of aircraft and crews.
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The lowest number of combatant
casualties
occurred in 2003, with just 20,000 killed.
The news about civilian
casualties
is also less bad than it used to be.
Thus, even though every civilian killed, maimed, raped, or tortured is one too many, the fact that the number of civilian
casualties
is clearly lower today than it was a decade ago, is good news.
We have been so consumed with seemingly objective discussions of politics, tactics, weapons, dollars and
casualties.
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