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Originally posted by Ronn_Bman:
Just what I said. You felt the need to break it down. 4 dead contractor = x amount of dead Iraqis.
All that death and misery IS shameful, but what does math have to do with it?
"450 dead and 1000 injured Iraqis FOR 4 dead security contractors" like there is might be an acceptable number?
What's worse is that sounds like "it's ONLY 4 dead security contractors, so we have to kill thousands of Iraqis".
I know, just another adhom/strawman. That's all I've got, right?
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No Ronn, I have seen you make some excellent and thoughtful and funny posts.
You see, there is no formula or acceptable number. The math bit is just a perspective that frames the moral dilemna involved in taking lives in response to lives taken. I personally find it quite the even more shocking and shameful that so many Iraqis have been killed in response to so few Americans being killed.
You may not see it this way, and its your right not to as far as I am concerned.