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Originally posted by SHISVX
i don't see a joke in the war that is no doubt coming our way and the millions of people that are going to die.
Kelli
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Kelli, I think you're overestimating by a huge amount. My estimate is thousands, not even hundreds of thousands. Still a lot by most standards, but not millions.
The US has rightly developed an aversion to killing lots of uninvolved citizens, and consequently has acquired weapons that pretty accurately target what they're aimed at. Mistakes happen, and innocent people die, no doubt about it, but at least from the time that Lyndon Johnson was president, US military tactics have even gone so far as to avoid valuable military targets because the collateral damage to nonmilitary persons and facilities would be too great.
As inhumane as war is, we do a better job than almost anyone at minimizing the inhumanity.