On: How We Learned to Kill

[meric]

When was the last time there was a battle with thousands of causalities anywhere on earth?

2400 killed, 600 wounded.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Fallujah

[knowaveragejoe → meric]

Which occurred over roughly two months. Literally millions of soldiers died over the same time span in the world wars, nevermind civilians. That's just in the last century, and it's not even in the same ballpark.