{"id":2068,"date":"2005-07-20T07:02:38","date_gmt":"2005-07-20T12:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/body-counts-for-that-other-perpetual-war\/"},"modified":"2005-07-20T07:02:38","modified_gmt":"2005-07-20T12:02:38","slug":"body-counts-for-that-other-perpetual-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/body-counts-for-that-other-perpetual-war\/","title":{"rendered":"body counts for that other perpetual war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>inspired by my own <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/missed_by_just_135.html\">post<\/a> on iraqi civilian deaths,  i thought i&#8217;d scratch a little deeper and see what i could find.<\/p>\n<p>two years in iraq (march 2003-march 2005)<br \/>\niraqi civilian deaths:  24,865 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iraqbodycount.net\/press\/pr12.php\">source<\/a>)<br \/>\ncoalition deaths:  1712 (<a href=\"http:\/\/icasualties.org\/oif\/\" class=\"broken_link\">source<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>kill ratio:  14.52  (24,865\/1712)<\/p>\n<p>four and a half years in israel (september 2000-april 2005)<br \/>\npalestinian deaths: 3596 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.palestinercs.org\/crisistables\/table_of_figures.htm\" class=\"broken_link\">source<\/a>)<br \/>\nisraeli deaths:  953  (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfa.gov.il\/mfa\/terrorism-%20obstacle%20to%20peace\/palestinian%20terror%20since%202000\/victims%20of%20palestinian%20violence%20and%20terrorism%20sinc\">source<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>kill ratio:  3.77 (3596\/953)<\/p>\n<p>i realize this isn&#8217;t entirely fair &#8211; since there&#8217;s lots of room for interpretation in the concept of &#8220;civilian&#8221; and i&#8217;m quite confident that the definition is never going to be the same twice, but&#8230; i thought a moment of reflection on the &#8220;us vs. them&#8221; (and &#8220;them vs. us&#8221;) was worth a few words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>inspired by my own post on iraqi civilian deaths, i thought i&#8217;d scratch a little deeper and see what i could find. two years in iraq (march 2003-march 2005) iraqi civilian deaths: 24,865 (source) coalition deaths: 1712 (source) kill ratio: 14.52 (24,865\/1712) four and a half years in israel (september 2000-april 2005) palestinian deaths: 3596 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}