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The (quite understandable) nature of American politics is that support for a war falls when casualties rise.
An NSC staffer working for Richard Clarke told us the threat was seen as one that could cause hundreds of casualties, not thousands.
Such a study, if it actually existed, yields significant insight into the thinking of al Qaeda's leaders: (1) they rejected hijackings aimed at gaining the release of imprisoned comrades as too complex, because al Qaeda had no friendly countries in which to land a plane and then negotiate; (2) they considered the bombing of commercial flights in midair-as carried out against Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland- a promising means to inflict massive casualties; and (3) they did not yet consider using hijacked aircraft as weapons against other targets.
During prolonged mid-19 th -century conflagrations like the American Civil War and the Crimean War, battlefield casualties were unprecedentedly high and civilian casualties were increasingly considered inevitable.
"Wars mean casualties" said the Telegraph , calling once again for the deployment of ground troops.