Should We Really Be Risking More Lives to Look for the Missing in Iraq?

A good point, if one nobody seems to want to face:

Should We Really Be Risking More Lives to Look for the Missing in Iraq?: "The desire to free prisoners of war and to recover the remains of those killed is understandable. Families of the missing seek closure and the desire to know the fate of those missing is not unnatural in itself. But expending further lives in the process is symptomatic of an American tendency to value the dead and missing more than those of the living. This tendency becomes even more pronounced when the United States is involved in a losing effort on the battlefield, as was the case in Vietnam and is now true in Iraq. Dead and missing soldiers are effortlessly transformed into heroes, individuals for whom continued fighting is far more easily justified than official platitudes and never-realized political and military objectives. Consequently, some semblance of victory can be achieved when remains are recovered or when prisoners are freed."