COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE GUARDIAN
I'm glad you made the distinction "jihadi” terrorists.
They are in fact a rather small subset out of the general
class of terrorists.
The world's greatest terrorist, in absolute numbers, is
without question the United States.
It has killed something at least 6 million souls since the
end of World War II in its various colonial wars, coups, and interventions.
Almost all the dead are civilians.
On a per capita basis, again without a doubt, the world's second
greatest killer over nearly the same period has been Israel in its countless
invasions, wars, assassinations, and dark operations.
I've not totalled Israel's hideous toll, but it has been many
tens of thousands - again mainly civilians - averaged over a national
population about a fiftieth that of America's (averaged over decades).
No terrorist group in history - not IRA, not ETA, not ISIS -
comes close to being as murderous as these two countries.
And despite the cold hard statistics, our press talks
endlessly of terror as though it were a Muslim phenomenon.
Truly, these practices of ignoring the great terrors while
constantly advertising the relatively small ones provides us one of the best
measures of the immense bias contained in our press.
Our self-proclaimed free press, on many important matters of
life and death, behaves not so differently to the old Soviet state news
outlets.
