POSTED RESPONSE TO A POSTING ON ALEXANDER HIGGINS' BLOG
No, the toll is tens of thousands of Afghans, not to mention
the Pakistanis now being killed.
One could throw in the million dead Iraqis since the Afghan
adventure was used as an excuse.
Americans tend always to measure the impact of their wars by
the number of Americans killed.
That is neither accurate nor ethical.
How many times did we hear about the 60-odd thousand
Americans killed in Vietnam?
And it was the rate of those deaths which ended the war.
But the real toll was 3 million Vietnamese killed, many
horribly, millions made homeless, an ancient society torn apart, and a sea of
Agent Orange and landmines left to kill and maim for decades.
You could fairly add, too, the horrors of Cambodia, for
America’s incursions and secret bombing were responsible for the neutral
government’s fall. America is doing much the same today in Pakistan.
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