[lbo-talk] Sad Leninism.

[Chris Doss]

Considering that civilians deaths among Georgians are the result of missing when attacking a military target and the occasional looter with a revenge-killing grudge, whereas civilian deaths among Ossetians are the result of shelling a city with rapid-fire rocket launchers and tanks, and the ratio between civilian Georgian and Ossetian deaths is probably about 1 : 10, I think it would be hard to find proportionality between them.

(Technically, Beria was a Mingrel, an ethnic minority in Georgia with a different language, not a Georgian.)

--- On Tue, 8/19/08, John Thornton <jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Is the civilian death toll from Russian intervention higher
> than the 
> civilian death toll from the initial Georgian assault?
> Is it lower? What is the death toll and where did you get
> this information?
> I assume the information is from a reliable source or does
> one just 
> "know" this without needing evidence?
> How do you determine what is proportionate?
> Is there some metric to apply that I am unaware of?