Who says we shouldn't count?
One of the mistakes the Bush administration made early on was to completely avoid releasing any information about enemy fighters killed in action. Their intent was noble, an effort to head off the mistake in the Vietnam era of providing incorrect and inflated numbers in an effort to "prove" success over the enemy, i.e. the "body bag" scandals. But by providing absolutely no information at all during the War on Terror, the administration has promoted the unintended impression that our troops are the only ones dying, which led inevitably to the infamous "grim milestone" reports from the DLM every time our casualty count trips another zero in the total.
So I'm heartened to see a headline in Pajamas Media (heh, where else?) that shows a nice set of numbers about the Afghanistan campaign without ever mentioning how many American deaths it took to produce them: "40,000 Afghan Babies Live. 136 Taliban Die."
We are winning, Harry Reid.
