Writes Gary North: "The public's objection to civilian body counts was basic to the Philippines, WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. It was basic to Sherman's march to the sea.

"I suppose every aggressive nation is afflicted with this blindness. Stalin & Mao were oblivious even to domestic civilian genocide.

"I cannot think of any college-level textbook that even reports on civilian casualties. This is a Barnesian blackout. It is systematic and universal. Bomber Harris got a statue. The Queen Mother was there for its unveiling.

"'We don't do body counts.' By 'we,' I mean civilians. The Democrats in Congress are silent. They know that civilian body counts call into question all military adventures.

"The Sons of the Confederacy do not publish books on Southern atrocities. They should.

"If I were to teach European history, I would devote a week to the Thirty Years War and the Treaty of Westphalia. That was where military sanity began for the early modern West. Europe put the cap on civilian casualties until 1793. Then the floodgates opened in the name of the People."