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artappraiser — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 21:36:22 +0000

In reply to The American Cult of Bombing

I found this other article by him on his blog, which he linked to in the Consortium article, to be a far better piece

https://bracingviews.com/2017/11/19/u-s-air-strikes-and-civilian-deaths-in-the-war-on-terror/

It leaves out the Consortium style ideological screeching about empire and just deals with analysis of

U.S. and Coalition forces have seriously undercounted the number of civilians killed in air attacks against ISIS. That is the key finding of an 18-month-long investigation led by Azmat Khan and Anand Gopal and published this week in the New York Times Magazine. Khan/Gopal surveyed 103 sites of air strikes in northern Iraq, extrapolating from these attacks into other regions in which the Coalition launched air attacks against ISIS since 2014. They conclude that between 8000 and 10,000 civilians have been killed in these attacks, far higher than the U.S. government’s estimate of roughly 500 civilians killed (or the 3000 civilian deaths estimated by Airwars.org over this same period)....

Still, there's also this other elephant in the room: Trump's Pentagon doesn't even bother to try to lie, as they don't hold press conferences any more. Trump doesn't really care what's going on over there (at the Pentagon, that is), and most people don't really seem to miss it, either. It's a whole new paradigm, actually. The underlings are just winging it, the buck stops with nobody, nobody is really in charge. So what imperial ambitions are we talking about? More Trump hotels, like say, in North Korea? The imperial ambitions of an Acting Defense Secretary who hasn't been approved by Congress?

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