On September 11, 2001, almost 3000 people were killed in the most devastating of terrorist attacks on United States soil. As a rally cry, the U.S., Canada, Britain, Norway, Australia, and several other nations invaded and occupied Afghanistan and eventually Iraq in order to flush out Al Qaeda and punish their leader, Osama bin Laden.
It took over ten years later, bin Laden was found and executed. He was one of the leaders of Al Qaeda during the initial bombing at the World Trade Center, and the eventual mastermind behind the 2001 terrorist attacks in New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
While those conflicts still go on, and as military presence and occupation still take place in Afghanistan and Iraq, the organization Boko Haram has made violent in roads in Nigeria. Boko Haram first made major news when they successfully kidnapped 276 school girls saying that girls should not be in school and that girls as young as 9 are suitable for marriage.
And now, Boko Haram is responsible for an attack that literally has wiped a small town off the face of the Earth. In affect, Nigeria has had their own version of 9-11.
So what happens now? What does the rest of the world do to help? This has been a problem that has plagued this region for a number of years, and it’s most likely been a thorn in the side of Nigerian authority and government. But we can’t really send in troops to help clean things up. It’s already been proven that this doesn’t help the local population.
In response to the 9-11 attacks, over a million people in Afghanistan and Iraq have died due to American and Allied occupation forces. That’s a staggering number that dwarfs those killed on September 11, 2001. More deaths isn’t the answer.
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3boxesofbs
January 16, 2015 at 10:15 am
More deaths isn’t the answer.
So you don’t think the murderous thugs who did this should answer for their actions with their lives?
What should we do with people who are not willing to conform to societal standards; even in war, there has allows been unacceptable deaths. Doesn’t think qualify?
In response to the 9-11 attacks, over a million people in Afghanistan and Iraq have died due to American and Allied occupation forces
http://costsofwar.org/article/civilians-killed-and-wounded
You seem to be off by an order of magnitude there. Too many to be sure, but let’s use real and honest facts in any conversation about the subject.
Bob S.
Tim
January 16, 2015 at 10:54 am
From Casualties of Iraq War (wikipedia), Coalition Casualties In Afghanistan, and Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan:
And for Iraqis:
In Afghanistan:
Estimates in Afghanistan by both Coalition forces and by insurgents put the number of civilian deaths somewhere around 150,000 (low estimate). That, combined with the civilian and American deaths in Iraq, that pushes the total over 1 million dead. And each of those pages at wiki have citations pointing to several dozen other organizations that confirm and support the numbers presented.
As for unwanted deaths, I will not condone more killing to satisfy an aspect of revenge. I will condone the apprehension of such criminals to be brought to justice, which they should. I’m not so willing to condemn myself and kill a large number of people (Boko Haram is estimated to have over 8,000 members). But if a military action takes place in order to stop Boko Haram, then so be it.
You seem to be reading something that isn’t there at all. And as for the estimates of the dead, I use more than one source for my findings, but I’m not in the mood to post dozens of links.