Yea, with you on this, except that I'm not terribly iffy on the US as a global police force - I know I don't trust us to do it. Some sort of global cooperative effort, maybe, but with true checks on US power, and motivated by actually wanting peace and stopping atrocities.
I think it's very calculated on the part of the Bush Administration that we don't know how many Iraquis or other people are being killed. I don't think the death toll (which I suspect is still climbing from our destruction of infrastructure) for our invasion of Afghanistan ever got press in the US mainstream media either. Tis why I get my news from nonmainstream and/or nonUS sources.
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Wed, Apr. 7th, 2004 11:46 pm (UTC)I think it's very calculated on the part of the Bush Administration that we don't know how many Iraquis or other people are being killed. I don't think the death toll (which I suspect is still climbing from our destruction of infrastructure) for our invasion of Afghanistan ever got press in the US mainstream media either. Tis why I get my news from nonmainstream and/or nonUS sources.