Re:The front page of The New York Times for May 24, 2020
by gumby on Sunday May 24, 2020 @12:19PM
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Roughly half a million fatalities in the second Iraq war and about 150K in Afghanistan. (All numbers are of course disputed).
Of those they were about 4.5K and 1.5K US government employees (e.g. soldiers). Those are the only ones the NYT would bother to list, of course, but I had hoped even that meager portion might provoke some attention.
Your position echoes Stalin’s calculus that “quantity has a quality all it’s own. In both cases action (and inaction) by a few caused enormous misery for whole populations, though now the country has used its weapon of ignorance to attack itself.
Of those they were about 4.5K and 1.5K US government employees (e.g. soldiers). Those are the only ones the NYT would bother to list, of course, but I had hoped even that meager portion might provoke some attention.
Your position echoes Stalin’s calculus that “quantity has a quality all it’s own. In both cases action (and inaction) by a few caused enormous misery for whole populations, though now the country has used its weapon of ignorance to attack itself.