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infrogmationTwo 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. "
Source(at bottom of page)
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. "
Source
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?
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. "
Source(at bottom of page)
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. "
Source
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?
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Date: 2001-12-11 10:05 pm (UTC)And you just changed the context there-- though I suspect you know that the "We'll fuck with you all we want any time we want" bit was a reference to interventions of types like military invasions, droping bombs & missles, overthrowing governments &/or installing new ones, supporting dictatorships, etc.
Well, we're both philisophically non-interventionist.
Personally I believe neither the "it makes us safer domestically" nor the "it's for the foreigners own good" arguements in favor of the USA in the role of cop/bully of the World.