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How many civilians have US wars and interventions since World War 2 wrought?
"While estimates of Korean War deaths are mainly guesswork, the three-year conflict is widely believed to have taken 3 million lives, about half of them civilians.
The war in Vietnam and the spillover conflicts in Laos and Cambodia were even more lethal. These numbers are also hard to pin down, although by several scholarly estimates, Vietnamese military and civilian deaths ranged from 1.5 million to 3.8 million, with the U.S.-led campaign in Cambodia resulting in 600,000 to 800,000 deaths, and Laotian war mortality estimated at about 1 million.
Despite the fact that contemporary weapons are vastly more precise, Iraq war casualties, which are also hard to quantify, have reached several hundred thousand. In mid-2006, two household surveys — the most scientific means of calculating — found 400,000 to 650,000 deaths, and there has been a lot of killing since then. (The oft-cited Iraq Body Count Web site mainly uses news accounts, which miss much of the violence.)
The war in Afghanistan has been far less violent than the others, with civilian and military deaths estimated at about 100,000."
Why do we ignore the civilians killed in American wars - The Washington Post
These alone amount to more dead civilians than the Nazi Holocaust. And that's ignoring our own murdered civilians during the war when our whole strategy against Japan was called (by our own generals) 'terror bombing.' Attacking civilian German and Japanese populations was SOP, and continued to be SOP up to present day.
So if you think terrorists attacking soldiers in their own coutnries, or lopping westerners' heads off is out of line acknowledge your own place in history before thinking you're in any morally superior position to cast blame.
Not only is the USA FAR worse than the Nazis in terms of body counts, but where the Nazis were defeated and ended, we're still at it.
"While estimates of Korean War deaths are mainly guesswork, the three-year conflict is widely believed to have taken 3 million lives, about half of them civilians.
The war in Vietnam and the spillover conflicts in Laos and Cambodia were even more lethal. These numbers are also hard to pin down, although by several scholarly estimates, Vietnamese military and civilian deaths ranged from 1.5 million to 3.8 million, with the U.S.-led campaign in Cambodia resulting in 600,000 to 800,000 deaths, and Laotian war mortality estimated at about 1 million.
Despite the fact that contemporary weapons are vastly more precise, Iraq war casualties, which are also hard to quantify, have reached several hundred thousand. In mid-2006, two household surveys — the most scientific means of calculating — found 400,000 to 650,000 deaths, and there has been a lot of killing since then. (The oft-cited Iraq Body Count Web site mainly uses news accounts, which miss much of the violence.)
The war in Afghanistan has been far less violent than the others, with civilian and military deaths estimated at about 100,000."
Why do we ignore the civilians killed in American wars - The Washington Post
These alone amount to more dead civilians than the Nazi Holocaust. And that's ignoring our own murdered civilians during the war when our whole strategy against Japan was called (by our own generals) 'terror bombing.' Attacking civilian German and Japanese populations was SOP, and continued to be SOP up to present day.
So if you think terrorists attacking soldiers in their own coutnries, or lopping westerners' heads off is out of line acknowledge your own place in history before thinking you're in any morally superior position to cast blame.
Not only is the USA FAR worse than the Nazis in terms of body counts, but where the Nazis were defeated and ended, we're still at it.
