In the “risks/rewards” linked post, he says “the left won’t get out of the domestic.” I’m not sure what that means—but I do know that the domestic casualties will be quite large, though not easy to round up and count like battlefield bodies.

Staying domestic—and leaving aside the casualty lists of the next returning-vets Gulf War- or Agent Orange-type syndrome—the real home casualties will include the early deaths of the aged, the seriously ill, the mentally ill, mostly among the poor and the working class. These deaths will be a direct result of cutbacks (known to politicians as “reforms”) in the social programs, cut under cover of the war. Who is counting these casualties? —LC