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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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Central America
Date: 2002-01-13 01:33 pm (UTC)You might not want to get me started on what the USA gov't got up to in Central America over the past 30 years. I have a hard time thinking of programs that so purely caused unnecessary harm and dammaged their own announced intended goals.
In Nicaragua we had a very rare chance for peacefull democratic change to undo much of the dammage done by decades of support for the Somosa family dictatorship. Instead we went for a policy that left the country in smoldering ruins after years of unnecessary war. I can only assume it was done for some domestic reasons or political posturing, if there was any reason at all.