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Afghanistan
Tens of Thousands Died in Two Decades of Conflicts in Afghanistan
2021-04-18
There is a lovely two-tone bar graph at the link for those who prefer their data presented visually.
[ToloNews] The last two decades of conflicts in Afghanistan has taken tens of thousands of lives from civilians to security force members and from international troops to the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
In this report, TOLOnews has summed up overall casualties inflicted to all parties to the conflict as well as civilians in Afghanistan. The findings show that civilians have paid a high price for the ongoing war that started with the ouster of the Taliban regime in 2001.
Civilians also paid a high price for living under Taliban rule, and for the Soviet war in Afghanistan before that. And during the Great Game years of the British empire... When exactly was Afghanistan a safe and peaceful land?
Figures by Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission indicate that 31,113 non-combatants were killed in Afghanistan in the past 13 years and 62,662 more were maimed.
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  I've always felt that nukes would have sent the message better.
Posted by: ed in texas   2021-04-18 21:49  

#2  A swift Roman-style punitive expedition that wiped out 10,000 Taliban -- maybe with a few dozen JDAMs dropped over the course of maybe 72 hours -- would have been both more effective and more humane than yet another of our globalists' idealistic, bumbling efforts at nation-building
Posted by: Threrenter Splat9863   2021-04-18 18:28  

#1  When exactly was Afghanistan a safe and peaceful land?

* don't forget what the Mongols did when provoked by the locales.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-04-18 17:48  

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