On Privation and War: In Iraq and Palestine, First Casualties Are Those Least Able to Defend Themselves

...Now, some three million Iraqi children are malnourished due to an economy that has completely disintegrated, a government that supplies absolutely no social services, and international aid groups rendered pointless by raging war. It makes pointless the debate over whether more people are dying due to the US/UK occupation and the insurgency against it, or through sectarian strife and Iraq's emerging civil war. People are dying, and most of them, on all sides, are non-combatants. Many, inevitably, are children. Almost completely without notice in American media, children and the infirm are also quickly becoming the victims du jour in the latest, strikingly vicious effort by the United States and its European allies to help Israel keep the Palestinians under lock and key...

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