Score Now Even In Afghanistan

An academic, Marc Herold, has calculated that reported Afghan civilian casualities now number around 3,500 — the same number of civilians that died in the WTC. His analysis shows that average direct civilian casualties are 60-65 per day.

Of course, what’s interesting and sadly predictable is that these reports of civilian deaths rarely if ever come through US media — which provides a sanitized, brain-numbingly gung-ho boys’ own war story.

The rule of thumb observed in newsrooms down the decades has been that each offspring of the Christian or Hebrew deity is worth around 100 or maybe 1000 offspring of Allah, particularly if they are “tribesmen” as opposed to “peasants” or “farmers.” “Tribesmen” can die in units of up to 30,000 from such afflictions as famine or floods without exciting undue concern.

One of the villagers recalled: “We pulled the baby out, the others were buried in the rubble. Children were decapitated. There were bodies with no legs. We could do nothing. We just fled.”