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>The death toll of civilians in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S. war
>continues to mount. Indeed, it may total 24,000 people so far.
Attributing all evil to a single cause of choice makes bad logic. The Right used to inundate the public with horror stories about millions of victims of "communism" - the poor commies were blamed for every death on the other side of the iron curtain. This posting looks like a hogwash of this "logic of blame."
A better approach would be to calculate how many people would have died in the absence of American attacks and compare it to the figure of those killed by those attacks (without counting the deaths "by association" i.e. those who simply happen to die in the aftermath of the attacks).
wojtek