US Out of Everywhere

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Oct 10 09:37:24 PDT 2002


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>At 11:09 AM -0400 10/9/02, Nathan Newman wrote:
>>I am against the war in Iraq but a war there is pretty damn irrelevant to
>>global suffering-- over 30 million people are projected to die of AIDS in
>>coming years, millions more will die each year from poverty, lack of decent
>>water, lack of food, and so on.
>
>The war against Iraq and global suffering (poverty, AIDS, etc.) --
>surely not unrelated developments, whether you see them from
>Marxist, neo-Keynesian, realist, religious, or whatever perspective.

I missed this first time around. Nathan, are you really arguing that a few extra Iraqi deaths from a war wouldn't really matter much in the big picture? With all the millions who die prematurely, what's a few thousand more? Are you really saying that? Or was this just infeliciously phrased?

Doug



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