{"id":21163,"date":"2023-03-28T04:45:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T02:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=21163"},"modified":"2023-04-02T07:28:44","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T05:28:44","slug":"americans-dont-care-about-the-iraqi-dead-they-dont-even-care-about-their-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=21163","title":{"rendered":"Americans Don\u2019t Care About the Iraqi Dead. They Don\u2019t Even Care About Their Own."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2023\/03\/18\/iraq-war-death-toll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peter Maass, The Intercept_<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Until Covid-19 came along, I thought\u00a0the willful ignorance of Iraqi casualties\u00a0was principally a matter of Americans not caring about the deaths of foreigners, especially those who are not white and not Christian. And that\u2019s certainly true:\u00a0We don\u2019t care enough about those deaths, even if (or especially if) we are responsible for them. But the larger truth is that we also don\u2019t even care about the deaths of our own citizens. Choices have been made that caused America to have one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.jhu.edu\/data\/mortality\">highest per-capita rates<\/a>\u00a0of Covid deaths, with more than a million dying so far, and probably another 100,000 dying this year. The numbers tick upward, but most of us hardly notice.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Covid toll, there is also the violence America inflicts on itself with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/graphics\/2022-us-gun-violence-world-comparison\/?leadSource=uverify%20wall\">guns<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/w3ct39vg\">cars<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commonwealthfund.org\/blog\/2022\/too-many-lives-lost-comparing-overdose-mortality-rates-policy-solutions\">opioids<\/a>, and a predatory health care system that yields the highest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/04\/05\/health\/us-women-health-care\/index.html\">maternal mortality<\/a>\u00a0rate among the world\u2019s richest nations. We are an exceptional nation but not in the way we have been told: America kills its own at rates that are far higher than peer nations. The situation is getting worse, not better, because life expectancy in the U.S. is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthsystemtracker.org\/chart-collection\/u-s-life-expectancy-compare-countries\/\">plummeting<\/a>\u00a0while in comparable countries it is increasing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Maass, The Intercept_: Until Covid-19 came along, I thought\u00a0the willful ignorance of Iraqi casualties\u00a0was principally a matter of Americans not caring about the deaths of foreigners, especially those who are not white and not Christian. And that\u2019s certainly true:\u00a0We &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=21163\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}