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| Topic | The US govt killed more civilians this month than all European terrorist attacks |
| snake1989 09/03/17 2:41:25 AM #47: | ModLogic posted... snake1989 posted...The US has confirmed Alright, then let's consider the highest number of casualties reported by any tracking agency to date: "The military recently confirmed that American-led airstrikes had been responsible for at least 352 civilian deaths since the start of the war against the Islamic State. But Airwars estimated that the total was eight times higher. The group found that at least 3,100 civilians were killed in American-led airstrikes from August 2014 to March 2017." https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/world/middleeast/syria-airstrikes-civilians.html?mcubz=1 Sounds pretty awful, and if those numbers are accurate, they are deplorable and the US can do better and should be held to a higher standard. But those estimates are also 3 times that of the Syrian Network for Human Rights (http://orient-news.net/en/news_show/136037/0/SNHR-US-coalition-strikes-killed-at-least-civilians), and 8 times higher than the US Military estimates, so I don't think they should be taken as certain since there is such a disparity and this is a difficult statistic to track. But let's assume that this 3,100 civilian deaths over 3 years is 100% accurate. Even that figure is still dwarfed by, for example, the death toll Isis inflicted upon Iraq in a shorter 2 year period, estimated at 18,800 deaths, 36,245 injured, and 3500 taken into slavery: https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/isis-death-toll-18-800-killed-iraq-2-years-u-n499426 The difference in outcome between trying to avoid killing civilians and trying deliberately to kill them is pretty profound. --- "A man chooses. A slave obeys."-Andrew Ryan ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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