36 dead? “Not a high price”

Hala Jaber in the Sunday Times:

“For what its worth, the election did go much, much better than many expected, both from the point of view of turnout, and from the point of view of security. After all, the Ministry of the Interior’s official figure of 36 killed, mostly civilians, is not really a high price in a country where daily you have such numbers dying in one way or another.

Yeah, might as well die for “democracy” if you’re going to get killed in the violence of Occupied Iraq, anyway. Is she related to Mad Madeleine?

To paraphrase the statements of Victor Davis Hanson, author of Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Culture, if we knew, let’s say, that a million people would die in the liberation of Iraq, most Americans would oppose it. A couple thousand, though? That’s more reasonable. If only a couple hundred were to die, by all means, send in the troops. A few, (or a few thousand), innocent deaths is just an unfortunate but necessary by-product of war.

Such thinking is, for lack of a better word, evil….. Emily Katz

Evil is a suitable word. The count is up to 44 now. I suppose Hana will let us know when the price goes too high.