Why do liberals blame the US for the Iraqi death toll?
Why is it that liberals like to place banners on their websites showing the Iraqi death toll? Obviously, it is because they believe that the US is to blame for the casualties. Victor Davis Hanson notes on National Review:
Somehow “thousands have been killed” is never qualified as those mostly butchered and blown up by insurgents–since the loose use of the passive voice lends a general sense that somehow Americans are directly involved in, or responsible for, the killing.
I don’t see how the death toll has anything to do with whether the US was right in going to Iraq or not. What is the number of casualties that would have been acceptable? Sure, the death toll is depressingly high. But most of the casualties are caused by terrorists blowing up fellow Muslims. How can the US be blamed for that? If a police officer arrests a woman’s abusive husband and the neighbor kills her, is the police officer to blame? It doesn’t make any sense to blame the US for the actions of terrorists. Then again, liberals don’t want to blame anyone for their own actions. It is always someone else’s fault. No murderer deserves to be executed, because it always turns out the poor guy was made fun of when he was in school or his daddy left him. It’s all the same. Personal accountability is a thing of the past.
Death toll is death toll if it was 1000 people dead and you were responsible for even 1 you are a contributor to the death toll. Christianity and the Law of the Ten Commandments is similar to that type of antithetical thinking. Where if you transgress one law you transgress them all and are considered guilty as a transgressor of the Law.