Innocents Abroad, Collateral Damage Dept. 0
(This is one of the problem posts mentioned in the “Sticky.” I’m experimenting. Later: It’s working now. I created a new post with same content. I’ll be damned if I know why it didn’t post on schedule, as I can see no difference between this one and the original–it was visible in preview mode but would not appear on the front page. *&%&^% computers.)
To official America, some lives are more important than others. Nick McDonnell does the math for those so-called “surgical strikes.”
That number yields some grim math. Last year, the coalition acknowledged 4,589 airstrikes in Iraq and Syria. If the NCV was 10 throughout, then U.S. policy in 2016 was to tolerate the incidental killing of a maximum of 45,890 innocent Iraqis and Syrians in order to destroy ISIS.
More math at the link.
