Today's News: The Figures Are In. The USA Wins.

[infrogmation]

Two items from today's news:

From CNN: "The death toll from the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center has been revised down to 3,050, the New York Office of Emergency Management said Saturday. "
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From CommonDreams: "More than 3,500 civilians have been killed in Afghanistan by U.S. bombs, according to a study to be released December 10 by Marc W. Herold, Professor of Economics, International Relations, and Women's Studies at the University of New Hampshire. "
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So, apparently, we've killed more innocent civilians in a nation with less than 1/10th the population of the USA than the terrorists killed on 11 September.

Do we get to declare victory now?

Will I be forgiven if I decline to wave a flag and shout "USA! USA!" in celebration of this news?

Comments

Re: Irrelevant.

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

From a purely tactical point of view, fair enough.

Except for that those thousands of civilians supposedly weren't in the category of "enemies".

Re: Irrelevant.

[ernunnos.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty certain our own troops aren't considered enemies either, yet a couple of them got hit too. Last I heard, we'd killed three times as many of our own troops as the enemy had. These things happen in war. It really doesn't have that much to do with the outcome of the war, or whether or not it's worth waging in the first place.