American Views Abroad

No one can point it out better than Dick Cavett. Memo to Petraeus &Crocker: More Laughs Please:

And no one need be unlucky enough to be dead or hideously wounded anymore. Those unfortunates are merely 'casualties' ---- a sort of restful-sounding word. I have a friend who would like to say to our distinguished warrior, 'General Petraeus, my son was killed in one of your challenges.'

http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/11