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To: epicure who wrote (104)	5/30/2005 7:01:11 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) of 541403

Iraqi police seem to be dying at an alarming rate- Doesn't that depend on your perception of what a non-alarming rate is? Granted that any intentional killing of a police officer is a strike at the concept of a law abiding society. But in reality, the Iraqi police aren't really a simple police force, but functions as an internal military. It seems pretty clear that what's really going on in Iraq is a civil war. We have only to look at the number of deaths in our own civil war (when the mechanisms of killing were far, far less potent), not to mention the Rawandi conflict, the Somali conflict, etc. to see that even the number of Iraqi police and military deaths are minimal in the context of a civil war. If there were a basically law-abiding society there, I would agree that the number of deaths is alarming. But within the context of what seems to be happening in reality, given the killing power of modern guerilla warfare, the number seems actually quite minimal.

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