"Every time Congress is briefed about an instance of civilian harm, we are almost always told that the service member followed the proper protocol and processes," Jacobs toldPolitico earlier this month. "So I think it's clear that it's an institutional not an individual problem."
While it is notoriously difficult to track how many civilians have been killed by a military that, in the words of Gen. Tommy Franks, doesn't "do body counts," researchers at the Costs of War Project at Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs estimate that combatants on all sides of the U.S.-led War on Terror have killed as many as 387,000 civilians as of late last year.
Airwars, meanwhile, said last September that U.S. airstrikes alone have killed as many as 48,000 civilians in nearly 100,000 bombings in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen since 2001.
Yes, would love to see two years of 'service to community' â> I honestly think young people would be on side for that.
I see the signs on the highway "this stretch is maintained by XX's money" and think, "no, someone needs to get off their ass and come out here and pick up."
Instead of incarcerating nonviolent criminals, make them clean up a block for a few months, or work in a food bank, or work at a library.
Yep, people need to have skin in the game. Makes them pay closer attention to the world and the so called big picture.
Their decisions might be a little bit more enlightened as a result. Or not, as our education system is a shambles and not conducive to making critical thinkers.
OTOH, all Americans should be mandated to spend one or two years in military service or the equivalent.
Yep, people need to have skin in the game. Makes them pay closer attention to the world and the so called big picture.
Their decisions might be a little bit more enlightened as a result. Or not, as our education system is a shambles and not conducive to making critical thinkers.
I've long thought that Heinlein's idea that two years of national service be required for full citizenship to be something considered, but have always eschewed the military side of it.
Yes, would love to see two years of 'service to community' —> I honestly think young people would be on side for that.
OTOH, all Americans should be mandated to spend one or two years in military service or the equivalent.
I've long thought that Heinlein's idea that two years of national service be required for full citizenship to be something considered, but have always eschewed the military side of it.
