New math, old stats

If we looked just at D-Day as an equivalent, but scaled the numbers up to today's population figures, the number of troops involved would be 206,000 (or nearly twice what we have in Iraq and Afghanistan right now) and the casualties for a single day (6 June 1944) would be 51,500, or over ten times what we've sustained in Iraq in five years.
If we'd sustained that level of casualties every day in WW2, of course, the people would have rebelled, but it's still far higher, per day or per unit or per whatever you want to look at, than we're experiencing now.

Rico says we appear unwilling to pay any price to end this war on terrorism; yet what would we have agreed to pay on 10 September if 11 September could have been prevented...