Portraying casualties

Glenn Reynolds has an interesting discussion about whether casualities in Iraq are mounting, falling, or even receding. Of course, it's all semantics and context.

But yes, although "casualties," being additive, are always going to "mount" over time barring new improvements in resurrection technology, the casualty rates are falling, something the "mounting casualties" language obscures.

All in all, the U.S. military does not get a good break in the U.S. media. Too bad. Good soldiers should get as much press as the bad ones do.