Strike This Phrase

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
by forsythe

There is a phrase that politicians and military people use that elevates my blood pressure each and every time I hear it. The phrase is “acceptable losses“, used to speak of the casualties of war.

Strike that phrase from the vocabulary. There are no acceptable losses.

Catherine Forsythe

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