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Both condemned thousands to death on both sides of each conflict.
I think the latest best guess is a total death toll for Iraq/Afghan of 750k humans. Directly. Indirect deaths will surely take this number over 1M
Not nit-picking. But there is some gravity to the size of the number that is not appreciated when it is so poorly reported.
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Hmm, I don't know. Isn't history absolutely littered with leaders who have developed an ability to psychologically hand-wave away thousands or even millions of deaths on both their side and the enemy's? Industrial-scale war could barely exist without this phenomenon, no?
Just to take two examples, Henry Kissinger's deliberate prolonging of the Vietnam war and George W Bush's determination to complete his father's 'unfinished business' in Iraq. Both condemned thousands to death on both sides of each conflict.
In Kissinger's own words, these are "men able to create their own reality", and my (under-informed) intuition tells me Netanyahu is in this mould.