America's Narcissists Indifferent to Iraqi Casualties

...Just like Vietnam, support for this quagmire gradually eroded with the escalating cost in American blood and American treasure. But even now -- after the official rationales for the war have been thoroughly debunked -- there continues to be few audible voices of contrition over Iraqi casualties. Does it really matter how many of these unfortunate brown victims were children or how many women cradling babies were snuffed by "smart bombs?" Do American musicians regret the loss of gifted Iraqi musicians? Do American soldiers empathize with the simple farmer whose only sin was that he was drafted into Iraq's army? Have American academics taken a stand against the systematic slaughter of their colleagues in Baghdad? Imagine if we lined up the cadavers of every innocent Iraq civilians who fell victim to Bush's Mesopotamian folly? What if we had a coast-to-coast tour of the horrors we have inflicted on the natives of that distant land?...

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