[lbo-talk] Western states have created the biggest wars in history ( was fartback)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jul 20 09:32:09 PDT 2005


Michael Pugliese wrote:


> And CB has of coarse looked at scholarly sources on this.And read
>up on the 2-3 million killed in the Congo in the 90's, 800,000 in
>Rwanda, slaughter in Algeria,

Which of course had nothing to do with the heritage of imperialism?

Add up the body count for the colonization of the Americas, Africa, and South Asia, plus two world wars, plus Indochina, plus Iraq sanctions - an incomplete list - and you've got 500 years of bloodbaths. What's your point here? Everybody does it?

Doug



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