Life - Cheap at half the price

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Tom Engelhardt: The Nearly Two Million Dollar Gap
  • The value of an innocent civilian slaughtered by al-Qaeda terrorists on September 11, 2001 to his or her family: $1.8 million.
  • The value of an innocent civilian slaughtered at Haditha, Iraq, by U.S. Marines: $2,500.
  • The value of an innocent civilian slaughtered by U.S. Marines near Jalalabad, Afghanistan: $2,000.
Never say that the U.S. government is incapable of putting a price on the deaths of innocents.