Hi Sig; Re: "We still have to sustain a few more before casualties before those of the entire war add up to just one airplane crash."
Some of the problems with your facile comparison are as follows:
(1) 520 Americans were not killed in the airline accident you provided a link to. That was a Japanese airplane, and carried mostly Japanese citizens. Since you're ignoring Iraqi casualties in your Iraq war figures, it's clear that you don't give a good Goddamn about anybody but Americans, so you should only consider American casualties in your comparison.
(2) Accidents are avoided to the extent that we find it possible. Similarly, we should also avoid hopeless wars.
(3) The Iraq war is ongoing, so you can't compare it to a an event that does not repeat. Furthermore, none of the cowards supporting the war on this thread is willing to specify an ending date for the war, (or a technique for winning it), so no realistic death toll can be estimated.
(4) All humans die, so by your logic, we could lose 100 million Americans in Iraq and it would still be less than the number that were going to die anyway.
(5) As far as convincing the American (or other nation's) public to support a war that doesn't make progress, your logic has already been tried several times. It didn't keep the Vietnam war going, and it won't keep the Iraq war going either.
(6) The problem with the death toll is that it is unnecessary. Can you name a sport in the US that kills 500 of our people in well under a year? I sure as hell can't. If there were such a sport, we'd outlaw it immediately.
(7) Eventually our kill total will exceed that of Saddam. Will that be enough for you or do you care at all about the blood that drips from your hands?
-- Carl |
