Hearts and minds

I just heard a remarkable statistic: though armies marched through the city and bullets chipped a lot of downtown bricks, there was only one civilian casualty reported.

A young woman was killed by a bullet that is believed to have passed through two doors to reach her.

Millions of rifle shots were fired and tons of cannon balls launched.

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By contrast, there 1,809 Iraqi civilians reportedly died in fighting LAST MONTH! That was up from July when the toll was 1,760.

The carnage here was just awful; but it apparently was limited to combatants.

Times change.