An honorable America is harder. It takes a bigger view, and sometimes there are short-term losses. Those MUST be absorbed IF the mission is to make America and Americans safer.

This is a valid statement. Please point it out to Donald next time he posts one of his Death Count posts.

We would have few or no dead American military people in this war if we were fighting this war only with B-2 bombers, cruise missiles, and MOABs. There were no American losses in the Bosnia air war. There were no American losses in the Desert Fox air war.

Also, American lives have been saved by interrogation techniques that can no longer be used.

As you say, we made a choice to fight this war the hard way. Let's all remember that when counting the cost.