Americans lunge from crisis to crisis, from blame fest to
blame fest, from bold headline to bold headline (sprinkled with hand-wringing
“shock” and “thoughts and prayers”) — with no concern for or attempt to address
and solve the United States’ deep-rooted contributive preexisting culture and
conditions:
Promotion, choice and celebration, language and example of violence by public figures, politicians and public officials, and mass media (including news and sports broadcasting and entertainment sectors), which particularly affects the country’s mentally ill and impressionable.
Poverty, fear, ignorance
Sore human relations and community relations
Failed trust between citizenry and public service or government
Misplaced priorities and inadequate social, economic, educational, and leisure staffing and resources
Incest and nepotism yielding inadequate work ethic and unfit intellectual and experiential caliber and character in U.S. leadership and high-level personnel
Unfit moral, psychological and ethical character in leadership
♦ KILLED ON ORDERS
Policy, acquiescence, direct actions of United States leaders, their partners and personnel
Causalities abroad Ricocheted
Deaths 900,000 / Dollars 8 Trillion = (estimated) “Costs of the 20-year war on terror” https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-09-01/costsofwar
2021 2022 United States violence abroad continued, Costs of War continued to mount with estimates showing “that Americans are far from done paying the bill on the ‘war on terror’” still raging across continents. “The cumulative cost of military intervention in the IRAQ/SYRIA war zone has risen to $2.1 trillion since 9/11; and about $355 billion more has funded military presence in other countries, including SOMALIA and other African countries.” (Capital-letter emphasis added)
COSTS OF WAR project co-director is reported saying that “twenty years from now, (the people of the United States will) still be reckoning with the high societal costs of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars — long after (and even if) U.S. forces are gone. ” Stephanie Savell https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-09-01/costsofwar
DISPLACEMENT: “37 Million” people (at least) have been displaced by U.S. Post-9/11 Wars “New Costs of War Study” September 8, 2020 https://watson.brown.edu/research/2020/Post-9/11DisplacementStudy
U.S. SOLDIER SUICIDE: An estimated “30,177 active duty personnel and veterans of the post 9/11 wars have died by suicide.” Report June 21, 2021 - Paper - High Suicide Rates | Costs of War (brown.edu) https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2021/Suicides
IRAQ BODY COUNT’s documented civilian deaths fr
om violence:
186,201 – 209,422 (further analysis of the WikiLeaks’ Iraq War Logs probable
estimate: another “10,000 civilian deaths.” https://www.iraqbodycount.org/database/ https://www.iraqbodycount.org/
♦ KILLED INTERNALLY following pattern set by U.S. leadership
Gun Violence Archives reports
2020: Total Number of GV Deaths - ALL Causes: 43,671; Mass Shootings: 610; Number of Children (age 0-11) Killed: 301 / Number of Teens (age 12-17) Killed: 1,083
2021: Total Number of GV Deaths - ALL Causes: 45,010; Mass Shootings: 692; Number of Children (age 0-11) Killed: 313 / Number of Teens (age 12-17) Killed: 1,247
2022 (to date, through May 24 2022) Total Number of GV Deaths - ALL Causes: 17,331 (Total Number of Injuries: 14,365); Mass Shootings: 214; Number of Children (age 0-11) Killed: 141 (301 injured) / Number of Teens (age 12-17) Killed: 512 (1,308 injured) https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/past-tolls https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/
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