US post-9/11 wars caused 4.5 million deaths, displaced 38-60 million people, study shows
US post-9/11 wars caused 4.5 million deaths, displaced 38-60 million people, study shows
Wars the US waged in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan following September 11, 2001 caused at least 4.5 million deaths and displaced 38 to 60 million people, with 7.6 million children starving today, according to studies by Brown University.
The argument for dropping nuclear bombs on Japanese civilians I hear the most, is that it would have caused more casualties to continue the war.
Now transfer that logic to the US
Now this is the kind of debate logic I can get behind.
I'm sure the victims of communism foundation will add these totals to their death tally because somehow this is gommunism's fault.
It's a thing of the past, 2021 was like 5 centuries ago. The US is the good guys now!
we should have an emoji of Colin Powell holding up a vial at the UN
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To a lot of Americans, the life of a single American is more important than the lives of thousands of non-westerners. The harsh reality is this goes beyond our government, a lot of everyday Americans are conditioned to see Middle Easterners as barely human.
I mean, most Americans will tell you the War on Terror was bad, but they'll usually just say it was "unnecessary" "because it cost U.S. troops." Then they'll go "9/11 never forget!" for decades to come over 3,000 dead Americans.
Project For A New American Century intensifies
I read that the clique around Bush did aim to "pay back" stuff a thousand times, seems that they more or less managed to do that, even though the pay back was genocide against innocent people, which the USA has a tradition that reaches further back then the Vietnam War.