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<p class="MsoNormal">How does one weight these 4k deaths against the <a href="https://trumpdeathclock.com/">
66k</a> which are attributed to Trump’s inaction on COVID-19?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Stalin’s insight suggests it is better to go big, then be surgical: “<span class="s1">A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">If some bad thing is going to happen, make it big and nebulous enough that people can’t reason about it..</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> on behalf of Jon Zingale <jonzingale@gmail.com><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Sunday, June 7, 2020 at 10:50 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>"friam@redfish.com" <friam@redfish.com><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [FRIAM] millenarianism<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Thanks for encouraging me to drop down a Wikipedia hole.<br>
Somehow I was interested in this data found on the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_strikes_in_Pakistan"> Drone Strikes in Pakistan</a> page:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202122">The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Investigative_Journalism" title="Bureau of Investigative Journalism"><span style="color:#0B0080">Bureau of Investigative Journalism</span></a> estimates
the following cumulative statistics about U.S. drone strikes (as of 17 September 2017):</span><sup id="gmail-cite_ref-BOIJ_20-2"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202122"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_strikes_in_Pakistan#cite_note-BOIJ-20"><span style="color:#0B0080">[20]</span></a></span></sup><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202122"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202122">Total strikes: 429<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202122">Total killed: 2,514 – 4,023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202122">Civilians killed: 424 – 969<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202122">Children killed: 172 – 207<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202122">Injured: 1,162 – 1,749<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202122">Strikes under the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_George_W._Bush" title="Presidency of George W. Bush"><span style="color:#0B0080">Bush
Administration</span></a>: 51<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202122">Strikes under the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama_Administration" title="Obama Administration"><span style="color:#0B0080">Obama Administration</span></a>:
373<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202122">Strikes under the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Donald_Trump" title="Presidency of Donald Trump"><span style="color:#0B0080">Trump
Administration</span></a>: 5<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202122">84 of the 2,379 dead have been identified as members of al-Qaeda</span><sup id="gmail-cite_ref-60"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202122"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_strikes_in_Pakistan#cite_note-60"><span style="color:#0B0080">[60]</span></a></span></sup><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202122"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202122">A formerly classified Pakistani government report obtained in July 2013 by the BIJ shows details of 75 drone strikes that occurred between 2006–09. According to the 12-page report,
in this period, 176 of the 746 reported dead were civilians.</span><sup id="gmail-cite_ref-61"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202122"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_strikes_in_Pakistan#cite_note-61"><span style="color:#0B0080">[61]</span></a></span></sup><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202122"> According
to the Long War Journal, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, and the New America Foundation, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009 had some of the highest <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualty_ratio" title="Civilian casualty ratio"><span style="color:#0B0080">civilian
casualty ratios</span></a> of any years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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