What's the basis for this statement. My understanding is that we have lost less than 10 Marines in retaking Fallujah, which is a city with a population of 300,000. I'd like you to point to a battle in the past where an armed force attacking a city of a similar size took less casualties than our Marines have taken in recapturing Fallujah?
An excellent point. History is being re-written as we speak. Historically, in a typical siege, the attackers can count on failing if their numerical superiority was less than 5 to one, and typically more like 10-20 to 1.
As far as I'm concerned I would be happy with 10,000 to 0 no matter what the name of the enemy is. I keep hoping. Specially when dealing with savages, who not only deliberately target non-participating civilians, but arrange to put their own women, children and helpless in harm's way for propaganda purposes. They deserve no chance to live. Zero, zip, nichts, rien, nichigo, nada.