While many of these were ‘collateral damage’ in American military operations, most were intentional killing of unarmed and non-threatening civilians, mostly women and children, or the result of military policy decisions like ‘free fire zones,’ irresponsible aerial bombardment, and an almost complete absence of training in either the Geneva Conventions or local culture. No one knows the number with any greater precision because records of civilian deaths were purposely avoided, or as proportionately underestimated as military body counts for enemy troops were over-estimated. Greatness is at hand.ĭuring the American war in Vietnam, between 3 to 7 million were killed in a country of 19 million. And its lies are the biggest and best in the world. The United States has for some time been the most powerful democratic country on the planet. Nick Turse’s book demonstrates the validity of this principle, and with it the corollary that the greater the power the greater the lies that emanate from it. This is the only epistemological principle to survive in a world of increasingly concentrated power. Agents of power in a democracy lie more than similar agents in a dictatorship because democratic power is more vulnerable. ![]() All power is untrustworthy, everywhere and about everything.
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