Jonah, it’s true that the stats are irrelevant in a moral sense, but they are far from irrelevant in a racial-paranoia sense. You can only imagine what Al Sharpton and even Charlie Rangel would be saying today if the numbers suggested blacks were suffering casualties disproportionate to their share of the population. On second thought, maybe it is irrelevant, because they said it about Vietnam when it wasn’t true, so what might stop them now?