'Just World News' by Helena Cobban: Approaching 1,600: "In 'Nam, the proportion of Vietnamese deaths to US military deaths was roughly 50 to 1. I believe something like the same proportion (or something even higher, given the US mil-tech 'advances' since then) must apply today. But how, actually, do you count? What do you count? All the infants and sick people who died because of the war-caused degradation of what was once a fairly efficient modern safe-water system? All the sick people who died because of the war-caused chaos in the medical system in general, or because they couldn't get to the hospital because of the rampant public insecurity?"

(Via 'Just World News' by Helena Cobban.)