Carrol
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> From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org]
On
> Behalf Of Marv Gandall
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 3:59 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Bounty offered in Pakistan activist shooting
>
>
> On 2012-10-10, at 3:07 PM, Wojtek S wrote:
>
> > ...killing these guys is a good deed... I am not
> > sure to what extent it is the villages rather than terrorist hideouts
> > that are being blown. But inasmuch as it is innocent villagers who
> > are being blown - I am all with you on this.
>
>
> However, "killing these guys" augments their ranks precisely because
innocent
> victims are being blown to bits. Attacks on civilians, intentional or
otherwise,
> have been politically and militarily counter-productive from WW II to the
present.
> We can assume a positive correlation in the growth of the Pakistani
Taliban and
> the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of civilians killed and wounded in US
drone
> attacks, many of them children:
>
> "TBIJ reports that from June 2004 through mid-September 2012, available
data
> indicate that drone strikes killed 2,562 - 3,325 people in Pakistan, of
whom 474 -
> 881 were civilians, including 176 children. TBIJ reports that these
strikes also
> injured an additional 1,228 - 1,362 individuals, according to the
Stanford/NYU
> study."
>
>
http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/25/world/asia/pakistan-us-drone-strikes/index.htm
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