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Monday, March 24, 2003
posted by gbarto at 4:15 AM:
Not much new overnight, at least not that major news sources have picked up on. But for perspective, it's good to look at the lead editorial in today's Washington Post, "Grievous Losses." After a "bad" day yesterday, they're wondering how World War II would have gone with such instantaneous reporting. As near as I can tell, though are losses are - always are - heartbreaking and awful, they number less than one hundred. In 1942, US and British forces had to attack French forces on the beaches of North Africa (France? Yes, France was allied with Germany for a while; the jokes about résistance, après guerre aren't jokes). So here's the perspectiveOperation TORCH ended in victory, and was reported as such back home. But the three days were marked by confusion, error and avoidable loss, as a recently published history, "An Army at Dawn," makes clear.... "TORCH revealed profound shortcomings in leadership, tactics, equipment, martial elan, and common sense," [Rick Atkinson's] narrative concludes. Eleven hundred American and British fighters died during the three days. [our emphasis]This is ugly, but the technology and advances of 60 years are making it a lot less ugly than it might be, and thank God for that.
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