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December 19, 2005
A Little Perspective
From the New York Times (via Instapundit):
A little perspective is always a good thing. The anti-war Left excoriates the Administration for any civilian deaths; yet the death toll in Darfur/Sudan has been six times that in Iraq--in a concurrent time period. Not to mention the roughly 120,000 that have died on our own highways in that same time.
Another interesting point is raised by the Times' Bill Marsh's statement that the President's figure of 30,000 killed did not distinguish between civilian and military deaths and was close to the current number given by Iraq Body Count. I wonder where GWB got his numbers? As I noted here, some very sharp questions have been posed about Iraq Body Count's methods of counting, mainly concerning the difficulty of determining civilians from combatant who happened to be dressed in civilian clothes.
It will be interesting to revisit these figures in a year or two. In light of the recents trends in Iraq, we can all cautiously hope that there won't be another 30,000 killed in the next three years.
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