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Better than Nazis!
Feb. 10th, 2008 07:03 pmSo I just checked.
Nazi Germany's worst instance of collective punishment listed at Wikipedia, where one German soldier was worth X civilians, is 642. Currently only about 1,200,000 civilian Iraqis are dead for 3,000 American dead on 9/11, a mere 400 to 1 ratio. Therefore, we're only about 2/3 Nazi Germany's worst retaliation. As long as the number stays below 1,926,000, we're marginally better than Nazis! As long as you don't count Afghanistan, of course, that puts us over. Also, Nazi Germany started off at much lower ratios of 1:5, 1:10, etc, so on average they actually killed far fewer in reprisals. But if we ignore that, and Afghanistan, then we're currently not quite as bad as the actual Nazis.
Yay.
Nazi Germany's worst instance of collective punishment listed at Wikipedia, where one German soldier was worth X civilians, is 642. Currently only about 1,200,000 civilian Iraqis are dead for 3,000 American dead on 9/11, a mere 400 to 1 ratio. Therefore, we're only about 2/3 Nazi Germany's worst retaliation. As long as the number stays below 1,926,000, we're marginally better than Nazis! As long as you don't count Afghanistan, of course, that puts us over. Also, Nazi Germany started off at much lower ratios of 1:5, 1:10, etc, so on average they actually killed far fewer in reprisals. But if we ignore that, and Afghanistan, then we're currently not quite as bad as the actual Nazis.
Yay.
