Quotes about Casualties

A total of twelve thousand men and women fell that day—all the people of Ai.

Virtually every news source lists the greater number of Palestinians killed in Arab-Israeli wars in order to depict the Israelis as guilty (of 'disproportionate response'). Had similar reporting taken place during World War II, the Western Allies would have been deemed the villains since Germany and Japan lost far more civilians than America or Britain.

The reason there are so many casualties among believers in spiritual warfare is that we have lost sight of the fact that we are in a perpetual state of warfare, which demands constant alertness. And so we let down our guards. We open ourselves to attack. We forget that we are warriors, not tourists, in God's kingdom on earth.

You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.

Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders.

The first to fall in any war are forgotten.

Casualties of war keep alive post war hate.

This was one of the casualties of war, that trust itself seemed to die a thousand deaths.

All I hope is that the American coalition is doing its best to prevent civilian casualties and the killing of innocent people.