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No, you're over-simplifying this by assuming we can resolve a humanitarian issue with a war. We can't. Even conservatives like Steve Bannon know this. The Iraq
by spamizbad 9y ago
No, you're over-simplifying this by assuming we can resolve a humanitarian issue with a war. We can't. Even conservatives like Steve Bannon know this. The Iraq War plus its aftermath has a death toll approaching 1 million, 1/6th the size of the Holocaust.
Conflict with North Korea will be even worse.
- atomical 9y agoYou're responding to the wrong commenter. No one knows how many people die in North Korean concentration camps every year. But you can be sure that the total number of deaths will increase every year that the Kims are in power. There is no solution but war.
- spamizbad 9y ago> No one knows how many people die in North Korean concentration camps every year It's less than 70,000 each year, which is how many have died due to the Iraq war. If North Korea deserves war, what does the United States deserve?
- fjsolwmv 9y agoYou are catastrophically underestimating the size of the Holocaust. 6 million is only the Jews murdered by Nazi operations. Another 5+ million non Jews were murdered, plus, since we're comparing follow-on effects of war, many more millions of military fighters and civilians bombed.
- spamizbad 9y agoVery true. Thanks for pointing this out.
- adamnemecek 9y agoIraq war Was fundamentally different. NK is extremely hierarchical, once the leadership is removed, the country can be reconstructed much easier. I can't say I care about Seth Bannons opinion.
- spamizbad 9y agoChina, who knows them best, seems to disagree. Otherwise they would have taken care of the Kim family years ago. There were similar "this is different! It will be easy!" arguments made for Iraq as well, especially when people suggested it could be like Vietnam (in the quagmire sense, not US causalities sense)
- adamnemecek 9y agoI disagree with the premise and the conclusion.
- farnsworth 9y agoExactly, we don't even want to give Puerto Ricans the support they need, so what's the chance Trump won't drop some bombs, declare victory, then leave millions to rot?