NOT ENOUGH DEAD SOLDIERS?

Here is another example of the difference between a sanctity of life ethic and a quality of life ethic (see below for previous posts on this issue). Check out these opening lines from a Washington Post report headlined "U.S Combat Fatality Rate Lowest Ever"

Ten percent of soldiers injured in Iraq have died from their war wounds, the lowest casualty fatality rate ever, thanks in large part to technological advances and the deployment of surgical SWAT teams at the front lines, an analysis to be published today has found.

But the remarkable lifesaving rate has come at the enormous cost of creating a generation of severely wounded young veterans and a severe shortage of military surgeons, wrote Atul Gawande, a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. The war in Iraq has produced the "largest burden of casualties our military medical personnel have had to cope with since the Vietnam War," said Gawande's report in the New England Journal of Medicine. By contrast, 24 percent of soldiers wounded in the Vietnam War or the Persian Gulf War did not survive.

So more soldiers are alive, but this is a bad thing (enormous cost!) because their quality of life is low?

This is where it goes if there is no God.

Thanks to Rush for the link.