The "Mistakes" of war

More often then not the number of soldier causalities (both US and Iraqi) causes us to overlook civilian deaths. Death and violence is a product of Iraqis fighting both an external war against the US forces as well as a civil war between the Sunni and Shiite. The numbers of civilian casualties in Iraq sheds light on the degree to which we have actually “revolutionized” warfare. The fact that in 2005 “an average of 3.5 civilians were killed each week,” demonstrates that we can no longer can’t stand behind the notion that technology has allowed for the unwarranted killing of civilians to be a thing of the past. Even with technology that allows for a level of containment in war and precision in attacking the enemy, it appears as if nobody in Iraq is free from the dangers of “mistakes” in war.