How many unnecessary deaths (American included) has American imperialism caused from the Korean War till now?
Lol to all those who say US Imperialism doesn’t exist… American Imperialism is fact. Read some books from Prof. Noam Chomsky, Alex Cockburn, Howard Zinn or Prof. Niall Ferguson. All of them Americans or work in the US, Chomsky and Ferguson are very well respected and both agree that American foreign policy since 1945 has been Imperialistic if you don’t believe that then you don’t know enough about the subject to comment on it really. The sources below will give you a good start on counting how many have been killed to feed US Imperial policy. You do need to add to it figures from countries where US companies have had civilians killed by their actions through deliberate enviromental damage for profit, famines, death squads supported by Intel services, wars supported covertly by the US etc. I would hazard a rough guess from what I know through 17 years of actively reading history and politics to around 5-8 million however its a rough guess.
Well, if you look at it from the point of view of the powers that be in the US (and the powers that have been), the answer is ZERO. Any deaths are part of the price to pay; collateral damage does not apply only to non-US soldiers. I wouldn’t read much in the parallels discovered by Mr Bush between Iraq and Vietnam for a very simple reason. The parallel is too restrictive. It’s not just Iraq and Vietnam… The US has been involved all around the world, in the open and under covers, or via proxies. Also please do not blame Mr Bush, or the Republicans, Democrats have been as actively involved in the unrelenting, single minded, at any-cost-to-others pursuit of the interests of Big Business in the US. This includes and is certainly not restricted to (from the top of my head) : Bombing of Guatemala and ousting of Arbenz (suiting United Fruit), of Yugoslavia (which triggered the genocides, please check the chronology, deaths increases AFTER the bombings). Invasions of Philippines (ousted colo
