Inattention to Civilian Deaths in America’s Wars
February 4th, 2012Via: Washington Post:
The major wars the United States has fought since the surrender of Japan in 1945 — in Korea, Indochina, Iraq and Afghanistan — have produced colossal carnage. For most of them, we do not have an accurate sense of how many people died, but a conservative estimate is at least 6 million civilians and soldiers.
People just don’t care. Only in cases such as 911, when the civilian deaths were here, did people care. As long as it is brown and yellow people far away, Americans seem to have no problem with the wanton killing of innocent civilians.