Not worth it!!

Sometime soon the United States will announce the two thousandth death of the Iraq war. A recent poll revealed that more than half of Americans believe the war was not worth it. However, by historical standards the number of casualties of the war is substantially low. Compared to past wars very few have lost their lives. During the Vietnam War around 28% of the soldiers wounded lost their lifes as a result, this has been the case for only 11% of the wounded in this war.

"There's nothing magic about any given number of casualties, but what virtually any serious study of this shows is that Americans will tolerate casualties if they believe the conflict is needed, well managed, and there's a real purpose in continuing it,'' he says. "It seems obvious from public opinion polls that fewer and fewer Americans believe that."

This is similar to the Vietnam War. The majority of the nation believed that the war was not worth it because of number of casualties. There were large scale organized anti war protests in Washington D.C. Many Americans believed that the conflict between Southern Vietnam and the communists should be left to the Southern Vietnamese, while others believed that communism must be eliminated at any cost. This is also a parallel to the Iraq war because some Americans believe that if Democracy is not established in Iraq then the country will plunge into civil war, and later fall under the control of a militant islamic regime. This may pose a later threat to the United States. This was a similar threat to what the nation was facing from communism in the 1960s.