[lbo-talk] Genocide in Iraq and Sudan

[Chris Doss]

I think that "genocide" is one of the most over-used
words there is. In practice nowadays it seems to mean
any conflict in which large numbers of noncombatants
are killed. Vietnam was genocide, Chechnya was
genocide, Kosovo was genocide etc. There's a genocide
under every rock. Look, most armed conflicts in the
modern world are counter-insurgency vs. guerilla
warfare. Civilian bodycounts in such situations--and
I'm not sure how to rigidly define "civilian"
here--are invariably horrifically high. That does not
make them attempted genocides.

Nu, zayats, pogodi!

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