Why are most Americans callous to the loss of Iraqi lives?Could it be argued that we are committing genocide?

Answer 1

oh shut up you liberal whiner...........go play in traffic with that cindy sheehan chick

Answer 2

No! That would not be a valid argument. Our intention nor our actions are geared toward the destruction or elimination of any specific nationality, race or religious group. The 'stated intention' if you choose to believe it, is to eliminate terrorists and their supporters. Most Muslims do not believe that the terrorist actions are right. Most Iraqis are not terrorists. The U.S. is NOT telling people to give up their religions or their heritage or any such nonsense. So it is NOT genocide.

Our actions are irresponsible, ill-conceived, illegal, immoral and inappropriate to use just a few adjectives. Still, it is NOT genocide.

As for why are Americans so callous? Because most Americans are callous about just about everything these days. During the Vietnam war, MANY Americans protested the war. Rightly or wrongly, the people of the US gathered in DC and state capitals across the country, wrote letters, organizes marches and made their voices heard. Today, we write e-mails that do NOTHING and gripe and moan on line, but we do NOTHING constructive about most things. In 1960, just after the start of the Vietnam war, the US population was around 180.5, million people. Today, there are better then 302 Million people in this nation yet we have fewer protests going on then there were in the 60's and early 70's? Obviously, we don’t care as much today as we did back then. But that's the trend. How many people do you know that complain every time they go to the gas pump due to the high prices? Almost everyone I know voices their concerns to each other. They cry about how much their road trip to Florida is going to cost and how much the 2 hour trip to the Rock concert last weekend cost them. They wine about the cost to fill the gas tank of their vehicles each week when they go to work and how simple things like going to the grocery store cost SO much money these days. Yet, we (as Americans in general) are driving on average of 3% more this year then we were last year. We are still purchasing SUV's and large Pickup trucks when we don’t have an explicit use for them and rather then trying to reduce the number of trips we make in a day, we are scurrying from work to our homes and then going back out to shop or go to a friends home or any number of other destinations then returning home and doing it all again. The bottom line: our mouths say the price is too high while our habits say, it's okay, we can handle the price and this applies to everything. We say we don’t like how the government is run, but we vote the same type people in year after year. If we want the war to end, we need to not only voice our opinion when convenient, we need to voice our opinion ALL THE TIME, even when it is inconvenient.

I hope this helps.

Answer 3

Genocide? Maybe Americans should pack their bags and leave 25 million innocent Iraqi civilians to defend themselves against terrorists, militias, and death squads. Then maybe people will find out the meaning of genocide.

Answer 4

For the most part, all the bad stuff is out of sight and out of mind. In the US, you live in one camp or the other: pro or anti war.

You can argue that we're committing genocide but I reject it: who is doing all these suicide bombings? Will the killing stop when we leave? I think the answers to those questions tell you who is committing genocide, and it's not us.

Answer 5

Us killing Iraqis is news to me. Last time I checked we were fighting terrorist insurgents. They're the ones killing Iraqis with their chicken-sh#t car bombs. And genocide is a mass killing of one race or religion. I'm pretty sure that hundreds of thousands Iraqis haven't been killed. And no I'm not calloused to their deaths but I care more for my own brothers who are fighting for them.

Answer 6

Are we callous to:
The lives that battling sects are taking?? No. This is a centuries-long battle not of our doing
The lives of insurgents who are trying to kill our troops?? No, they are combatants
The lives of terrorists that are wreaking havoc and murdering civilians??? No. In fact, we should be killing them by the hundreds and thousands
How about the lives not being taken by a genocidal expansionist dictator?? an estimated 600,000 of his own people before Hussein's ouster and execution by a jury of his own people


Considering the US-led coalition has given vaccinations to over 3 million Iraqi children and have repaired or rebuilt hundreds of schools and hospitals which we did not destroy, I would say that our troops are saving millions of lives while giving what is deserved to those who are murdering innocents.

Why are you knee-jerk liberals so quick to dismiss these facts??

Answer 7

We aren't. And when over half of them are killed by us, get back to me on the genocide thing. To tell the truth, we should have done that when we first enetered that toilet. Sure would have kept a lot of American soldiers alive and unmaimed.

Answer 8

Why don't you look up the definition of genocide? And besides, most of them are not being killed by Americans----they're being killed by other Iraqi's and middle easterners.

Answer 9

NO genocide is when you make people stand in a line and you shoot them one by one. the terrorists have a choice, dont be a terrorist or do be a terrorist. Now which one do you think will most certainly die. The terrorists seal their own fate. Its their fault to fight against soldiers.

Answer 10

Americans are not callous. It cannot be successfully argued that the US is committing genocide, because we are not. The muslim crazies are killing their own people. Why don't you take your complaints to Al Qaeda? They are the ones responsible.

Answer 11

Because most Americans (well besides the morons) know that the VAST number (almost 90%) of civilian deaths in Iraq have been caused by enemy car and suicide bombers which would only increase should we leave.