I hate the term collateral damage. It is one of those words used by bureaucrats and politicians to make it seem as if their actions on the battlefield have little impact beyond the immediate war. It makes me think of car loans and physical property, when it really means human life.
And the sad thing is, as Derrick Jackson points out in his column today on last night’s Democratic debate, there are too many candidates out there — the exception being Dennis Kucinich — who are willing to sacrifice innocent civilians on the alter of revenge.
Here is Jackson:
So for all the talk about who among the Democrats is most against the war, Iraqi civilians remain too abstract to say “Enough!”
Yes, we lost 3,000 people during 9/11. But between 64,000 and 600,000 Iraqi civilians are now dead because of our invasion and the resulting civil war.
Are we not done killing innocents in the name of bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, and weapons of mass destruction?
Apparently not.
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