World Peace Herald: Iraqi civilian casualties
An Iraqi humanitarian organization is reporting that 128,000 Iraqis have been killed since the U.S. invasion began in March 2003.
Posted on July 14th, 2005 at 8:56 pm
Posted on July 14th, 2005 at 8:56 pm
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To borrow phrase from another conflict “we may have to destroy Iraq to save it.” Of course, these people are far away and foreign so they’re not nearly as important…
It’s difficult to write this without sounding like an insensitive bastard but when are we having a two minute silence for these innocent victims?
Do we, as a society, devalue the lives of these children by reacting in a lesser way to their deaths?
Lashings of double standards with sprinkles of hypocrisy on top, imho.
There’s a lot of dying about. Peace has to start somewhere.
More on this (the source by the way is extremely pro Bush) here.
Do we, as a society, devalue the lives of these children by reacting in a lesser way to their deaths?
Without wanting to sound callous, it is pretty clear that we value foreign life less than we value our own. That’s just human nature - we tend to stick to what we know, and we tend to stick up for our own ‘tribe’, in whatever way that’s defined (family, race, country, local community, religion, etc…). Of course we care less about Iraqi deaths than we do Londoners. It doesn’t mean they’re worth less, of course, but distance and a relative lack of information tends to ensure general apathy. This is why our leaders can get away with bombing foreign countries - because when it comes to the reckoning, we really don’t care any more. Not sure what you can do about that, though. Publish and be damned, I suppose?