Oil Wars: a Moral Cancer

by WILLIAM MANSON on 04-06-2013

�Roughly� 500,000 children in the early 1990s? �About� a million people killed by the invasion and its aftermath? �A few million� more lives maimed, displaced, wrecked (as much by grief and despair as by physical mutilation)? Such statistics are terribly abstract, obscenely abstract: an adding-machine tabulates an endless list of corpses into an abstract figure to be entered in the chronicle of �collateral damage,� �civilian casualties,��or a �body count.�


When Madeleine Albright asked in May 1996 about the death of half a million Iraqi children as a result of UN sanctions, she said: "we think the price is worth it." By "it" she meant US interests, propping US hegemony, and preparing for regional military action.

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