Subject: Re: Numbers Game Question
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 14:46:54 +0000


David wrote:

>Anthony,
>That's a pretty wacky statement, and completely irrelevant to the question.
>The question regarded the American media, not how many people Saddam 
>Hussein
>has killed or Bush has/will kill.

David,
That's a pretty wacky answer, and completely irrelevent to my reply, which 
showed the assumption behind your question. Did you oppose bringing 
Milosevic to justice (the war in Serbia, by the way, was NOT done through 
the UN Security Council)? If not, then your question should have focused on 
the lives that have been extinguished by Hussein, because what he has done 
DWARFS what Milosevic did. Instead of implying that the American media does 
not value Iraqi lives, you should have asked how much consideration Hussein 
has shown for Iraqi lives.

Or if you want a more "relevant" reply, perhaps you would like me to go 
through the Krugman article point by point. Let me give just one example of 
how easily refutable his statements are:

"The members of the Bush team don't seem bothered by the enormous ill will 
they have generated in the rest of the world. They seem to believe that 
other countries will change their minds once they see cheering Iraqis 
welcome our troops, or that our bombs will shock and awe the whole world 
(not just the Iraqis) or that what the world thinks doesn't matter."

I guess for Krugman, "the world" does not include the following 24 
countries:

Spain, Italy, Portugal, Britain, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, 
Poland, Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, 
Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar, Japan, 
Australia.

Let me give you some perspective on how large the current coalition is. Do 
you know what the three largest military coalitions ever assembled are? The 
largest was the WWII coalition. The second largest was the coalition in the 
first Gulf War. The third largest is the current one.

Proportion, David.

Anthony Crifasi


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