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"Incurred" also make its sound like it cost the US something, like a debt or obligation, or that those deaths are a burden or problematic to the US, e.g. The US now needs to feel bad about killing civilians...

Thank you for the Paths of Glory recommendation, it has been decades since I have watched it and I am going to watch it tonight.

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Reminds me of Politics and the English Language - so much terminology is meant to obscure, not enlighten.

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I should watch Paths of Glory again. I'm a Kubrick completist, but a couple of his films I haven't seen in decades, and this is one of them.

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