> Let's see here guys. Why don't you stop holding
> anyone on the left who can read accountable for
> stuff that Chomsky says and get down to some real
> discussion.
??? I don't understand what you're trying to say here, which makes it difficult to reply.
> Bull shit. Just what is the official war dead
> count for Afghanistan? How many dead Taliban
> (many of them just boys drafted into black
> turban), Al Qaeda, tribesman and civilians? You
> can't say, and the US government doesn't care.
Didn't stop them from compiling body counts during Vietnam.
> If the most conservative estimates say 3-5 thousand
> 'civilians'
Those aren't the most conservative estimates, as you (should) well know.
> you can be sure a lot more people died in the bombing than that.
Of that, yes, we can be sure.
> Which means about the only thing we know for sure is that far more
> people died in the campaign against Afghanistan
> than on 9/11. Vengeance is mine sayeth the
> Empire, again and again and again.
What was your post 9-11 gameplan, Charles? The prevention of future atrocities, even by horribly violent means, is not equivalent to trying to avenge past ills.
> But the deathsare indeed untold.
And I shudder to think of the awesome numbers of dead bodies that would've piled up in the absence of military action. But then again, 9-11 was probably just Al Qaeda's call for diplomacy, and, even if they hadn't left it at that, we all know that they could never ever really kill all that many people.
-- Luke
> CJannuzi