Ouch. Xinhua News scores one.

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[–]cisheteroscum 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

As retarded as this debacle was, I'm surprised we only lost 2300 people. Many others were wounded, sure, but I just would have expected casualties to be much higher

[–]la_cues 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Who counts as a soldier? Just amerian trained forces?

[–]cisheteroscum 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Idk I didn't make the infographic or compile the stats. Way more Afghani militants and civilians died than that, that's for sure

[–]AnarchySpeach 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Wonder if that number takes into account the number of totally-not-mercenaries that the u.s. paid.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Justify mass murder and you become complicit.

[–]cisheteroscum 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

None of this was justified. I'm just expressing my surprise

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Oh good! An excuse for warmongers. You people get $14/hour to post this, right?

[–]filbs111 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Put like that, it does seem like a massive waste of resources and human life. On the other hand, look at all the money that defense contractors, lobbyists, politicians friends etc received. And some small fraction of that money might trickle down to the taxpayer!