Communication breakdown.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills

One problem with the military that drives me around the bend is the deaths of our soldiers that we could have prevented, those that are caused by friendly fire. David Martin, the CBS Pentagon correspondent, reports that of the 600+ American deaths in Iraq so far, roughly 400 were the result of enemy action. Consider the 18 Marines killed taking the bridge in Nasiriyah: As many as 10 of those deaths were by...