Collateral Damage 0
Asia Times looks at civilian losses in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Viet Nam.
It’s not pretty. It is, indeed, rather an indictment of the heedlessness of America’s shoot-first foreign policy.
It should be required reading for the gunslinging crowd whose preferred solution for any international kerfuffle is to shoot.
A nugget:
Then there are those 3.2 million Iraqis who were internally displaced or fled the violence to other lands, only to find uncertainty and deprivation in places like Jordan, Iran, and now war-torn Syria. By 2011, 9% or more of Iraq’s women, as many as 1 million, were widows (a number that skyrocketed in the years after the US invasion). A recent survey found that 800,000 to 1 million Iraqi children had lost one or both parents, a figure that only grows with the continuing violence that the US unleashed but never stamped out.
Follow the link for more and more depressing numbers.
