> civilian victims (and overall casualties) of US military operations has done nothing but drop as technology improves
If you can definitively tell me how many civilian casualties there were in the Iraq war, we could discuss whether this were true.
"Credible estimates of Iraq War casualties range from 150,000 to 460,000. Other disputed estimates, such as the 2006 Lancet study, and the 2007 Opinion Research Business survey, put the numbers as high as 650,000 and 1.2 million respectively, while body counts, which likely underestimate mortality put the numbers as low as 110,000." [1]
Having a range from 150,000 to 1.2 million makes it kind of hard to discuss, don't you think?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War
