| While the death rate of American soldiers and related support personnel is well within expected range of any standing army in a hostile country, it's the perception of the people back home that matters. There was never a time in the Vietnam war where we were losing by any stretch of the imagination in terms of the body count, but it was the homefront view of the death rate being too costly for the lack of appreciable 'progress' that rallied public support against the war.
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. . . whenever any government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. |