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3000 US Dead in Iraq
“3,000 deaths in Iraq, countless tears at home,” said the New York Times headline.
“Iraq braced for unhappy New Year,” said the BBC.
Every big number is shocking, no matter how it is calculated, so let me offer this one. More than 650,000 Iraqis dead. For what? I know the justifications given. I’m still asking. For what. Is life really so expendable for the people willing to make decisions to send soldiers to kill and be killed? Well, yes, of course it is–at least some lives are.
What I wonder is how life could become precious enough to these decision makers that they would look to nonviolent means to settle differences in the world.
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