Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Perche' gli americani ignorano i civili uccisi nelle guerre americane?

The Washington Post
Why do we ignore the civilians killed in American wars?
 
Io penso a causa della Bibbia e di un certo evvidente razzismo.
Poi l'ipocrisia di regime fa si che piangono solo per gli umani che sono 
loro, gli altri non lo sono, vi ricorda qualcosa?.
Questo e disprezzo per il nemico . Tipico dei regimi.
 
As the United States officially ended the war in Iraq last month, President 
Obama spoke eloquently at Fort Bragg, N.C., lauding troops for "your 
patriotism, your commitment to fulfill your mission, your abiding commitment 
to one another," and offering words of grief for the nearly 4,500 members of 
the U.S. armed forces who died in Iraq. He did not, however, mention the 
sacrifices of the Iraqi people.
This inattention to civilian deaths in America's wars isn't unique to Iraq. 
There's little evidence that the American public gives much thought to the 
people who live in the nations where our military interventions take place.
Think about the memorials on the Mall honoring American sacrifices in Korea 
and Vietnam. These are powerful, sacred spots, but neither mentions the 
people of those countries who perished in the conflicts.
The major wars the United States has fought since the surrender of Japan in 
1945 - in Korea, Indochina, Iraq and Afghanistan - have produced colossal 
carnage.
For most of them, we do not have an accurate sense of how many people died, 
but a conservative estimate is at least 6 million civilians and soldiers.
Our lack of acknowledgment is less oversight than habit, a self-reflective 
reaction to the horrors of war and an American tradition that goes back 
decades.
However, when it comes to our wars overseas, concern for the victims is 
limited to U.S. troops. When concern for the native populations is 
expressed, it tends to be more strategic than empathetic, as with Gen. David 
H. Petraeus's acknowledgment in late 2006 that harsh U.S. tactics were 
alienating Iraqi civilians and undermining Operation Iraqi Freedom. The 
switch to counterinsurgency, which involves more restraint by the military, 
was billed as a change that would save the U.S. mission, not primarily as a 
strategy to reduce civilian deaths.
The wars in Korea and Indochina were extremely deadly. While estimates of 
Korean War deaths are mainly guesswork, the three-year conflict is widely 
believed to have taken 3 million lives, about half of them civilians.
The war in Vietnam and the spillover conflicts in Laos and Cambodia were 
even more lethal. These numbers are also hard to pin down, although by 
several scholarly estimates, Vietnamese military and civilian deaths ranged 
from 1.5 million to 3.8 million, with the U.S.-led campaign in Cambodia 
resulting in 600,000 to 800,000 deaths, and Laotian war mortality estimated 
at about 1 million.
Despite the fact that contemporary weapons are vastly more precise, Iraq war 
casualties, which are also hard to quantify, have reached several hundred 
thousand. In mid-2006, two household surveys - the most scientific means of 
calculating - found 400,000 to 650,000 deaths, and there has been a lot of 
killing since then. (The oft-cited Iraq Body Count Web site mainly uses news 
accounts, which miss much of the violence, shortly is a fake.)
The war in Afghanistan has been far less violent than the others, with 
civilian and military deaths estimated at about 100,000.
The lack of concern about those who die in U.S. wars is also shown by these 
civilians' absence, in large part, from our films, novels and documentaries.
The entertainment industry portrays these wars rarely and almost always with 
a focus on Americans. Black Hawk Down is the masterpiece of that aproach.
On Iraq, when an Associated Press survey asked Americans in early 2007how 
many Iraqis had died in the war, the average of all answers was 9,890, when 
the actual number was probably well into the hundreds of thousands.
In several polls in 2007 and 2008, Americans were asked whether we should 
withdraw troops even if it put Iraqis at risk of more civil unrest; a clear 
majority said yes.
Today there is virtually no support for helping rebuild Iraq or 
Afghanistan - no campaigns by large charities, no open doors for Iraqi 
refugees. Even Iraqis who worked with the American military are having 
trouble getting political asylum in the United States and face a risk of 
retribution at home.
The U.S. response to so many dead, 5 million displaced and a devastated 
country is woefully dismissive.
 
 
 

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Come si vede ci pisciano sopra ai nemici morti.
 
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