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Monday, January 11th, 2016

U.S. Dropped 23,144 Bombs on Muslim-Majority Countries in 2015

Author:     Adam Johnson
Source:     Alternet (U.S.)
Publication Date:     January 8, 2016
 Link: U.S. Dropped 23,144 Bombs on Muslim-Majority Countries in 2015
Stephan:   If you follow trends instead of looking at isolated incidents, stories like this one are very important; they provide a data point that illuminates much. We are hated in the Middle East, and it is not hard to see why that is, as this report describes. What would we think if the Cuban airforce began routinely bombing neighborhoods in Miami in support of a Latino gang?  How do you think the unhappy burghers of Miami would respond? How would you feel?

bombing_0Council of Foreign Relations resident skeptic Micah Zenko recently tallied up how many bombs the United States has dropped on other countries and the results are as depressing as one would think. Zenko figured that since Jan. 1, 2015, the U.S. has dropped around 23,144 bombs on Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia, all countries that are majority Muslim. (emphasis added)

The chart, provided by the generally pro-State Department think tank, puts in stark terms how much destruction the U.S. has leveled on other countries. Whether or not one thinks such bombing is justified, it’s a blunt illustration of how much raw damage the United States inflicts on the Muslim world:

Sources: Estimate based upon Combined Forces Air Component Commander 2010-2015 Airpower Statistics; Information requested from CJTF-Operation Inherent Resolve Public Affairs Office, January 7, 2016; New America Foundation (NAF); Long War Journal (LWJ); The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ).

It does not appear to be working either. Despite the fact that the U.S. dropped 947 bombs in Afghanistan in 2015, a recent analysis in Foreign Policy magazine found that the Taliban control […]

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