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You should probably include most US combat deaths in the terrorism category because, no matter how little Iraq had to do with 9/11, we wouldn't have been in a w
by curun1r 9y ago
You should probably include most US combat deaths in the terrorism category because, no matter how little Iraq had to do with 9/11, we wouldn't have been in a war there or Afghanistan without terrorism. Veteran suicides and overdoses can probably also be attributed to terrorism as they followed from the wars. War casualties are only in the thousands over the entirety of the war, but there's about 20 veteran suicides per day, so the deaths indirectly attributable to terrorism are actually quite a bit higher than your number.
- delecti 9y agoVeteran suicide rates are comparable to civilian suicide rates, and even including all combat and terrorism deaths in the last 20 years together we're at around 10,000, compared to 35,000 opioid deaths in just 2015. And honestly, the Iraq war is as related to terrorism as vending machine crush deaths. That was our dumb fault. That was a military industrial complex power grab.
- curun1r 9y ago> the Iraq war is as related to terrorism as vending machine crush deaths This is just wrong. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, but 9/11 provided the political cover that the Bush administration needed to take the country to war. Absent that terrorist act, there's no way that the American public and the international community would have stood by and allowed the US invasion to take place the way that they did because of 9/11.