(September 10, 2013 at 4:14 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: Lets kill (tens of, hundreds of?) thousands of people with traditional weapons to prevent the use of a few chemical weapons. That makes so much sense. The U.S. military has killed more Iraqis than Saddam Hussein ever did and more Afghans than the Taliban ever did. I don't know how regular bombs somehow are a more moral option. This is an insane foreign policy. We will literally be aiding Al Queda for no reason at all. It's like we've gone full circle. I think impeachment would be a great precident to start when the president abuses his power to go to war. It would make the next fucker think twice about killing people in the middle east. Do people in support of this think it's just some magic coincidence that all this is happening in the Middle East. Sure it's a fucked up region but there are a half dozen conflicts in Africa that are more fucked up and we do jack all about that.
Just wanted to point out that over the course of the Afghanistan war, the maximum estimate for Afghani civilian deaths is around 19,000.
Over the course of the Taliban's rule, it is estimated that they were directly responsible [shooting, executing, etc] somewhere to the tune of about 50,000+. If we take into account their more "passive" means of killing people [denying them international humanitarian aid, displacement, burning crops and leaving them to starve to death, etc] they can be considered responsible for well over 200,000 deaths. Most of 19,000 deaths in Afghanistan have been the result of executions, suicide bombings, car bombings, IEDs, and many other forms, to the point it's considered that it might only be around 3,000 at most that were killed by NATO forces.
One death alone by our hands is bad enough but to state that we are bigger murderers than the Taliban in Afghanistan is foolishness and outright bullshit.
