> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Henwood [SMTP:dhenwood at panix.com]
> Sent: Saturday, May 08, 1999 6:45 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: NATO's "mistakes" - a list
>
> Nathan Newman wrote:
>
> >220 killed. One person killed is a tragedy but this is an incredibly
> low
> >civilian death rate given how much bombing has been done. That is
> one-tenth
> >the number of Kosovars killed last year (by the lowest estimate
> available)
> >that many on the left have said was too insignificant to justify
> >intervention.
>
> Spoken like an accountant. Appealing to the spirit of accountancy,
> rather
> than a critique of imperialism, a couple of points: the 2000 dead in
> Kosovo
> includes lots of KLA combantants, while the 220 count is purely
> civilian;
> we're talking 40 days vs. a full year; and we're not counting
> invisible and
> future casualties from pollution, uranium, etc.
>
> Doug