So let us bring back the body count. If we must kill, let us kill as one human being to another, recognizing the full humanity of our victims. Without a body count, our nation becomes more of a robotic killing machine. As we dehumanize Iraqis, we slip even further into our own dehumanization. Let us bring back the body count, if only to recover our own sense of responsibility to the world’s people, to history, to our own humanity.
In between the embeds, the “touching” human interest stories, and of course, the constant stream of military press releases briefings, it can become awfully easy to forget that war comes down to killing people. Saddest of all may be if our soldiers forget.