Sunday, January 15, 2006
Collateral Damage in Iraq
Good news: fewer hearts and minds to win over, up to 1,000,000 civilian deaths:
Read the entire piece. It's essential.
People want order in their lives as long as it's not overly oppressive. That pretty much is, as the wingnuts always put it in response to criticism of one of their own oppressive policies, if you behave, there's nothing to worry about.
So what we've brought the Iraqis is anarchy and that will likely result at least two states, and if not, certainly an oppressive (anti-American) Islamist theocracy.
President Bush's off-hand summation last month of the number of Iraqis who have so far died as a result of our invasion and occupation as "30,000, more or less" was quite certainly an under-estimate. The true number is probably hitting around 180,000 by now, with a possibility, as we shall see, that it has reached as high as half a million.
Read the entire piece. It's essential.
People want order in their lives as long as it's not overly oppressive. That pretty much is, as the wingnuts always put it in response to criticism of one of their own oppressive policies, if you behave, there's nothing to worry about.
So what we've brought the Iraqis is anarchy and that will likely result at least two states, and if not, certainly an oppressive (anti-American) Islamist theocracy.
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