Marc Haron juxtaposes war statistics in his new article, All I See Are Dead People. He compares the tragic Iraq war, which, so far, has led to over 30,000 or 650,000 Iraqi deaths, depending on how one counts. In fact, Haron doesn’t mention it, but more Americans have died in the Iraq war than 9/11. (I don’t know about you, but I feel less safe, meaning those brave American soldiers and American civilians died in vain.) Marc Haron also compares the tragic 9/11 attacks to the tragic deaths of starving children everyday, saying that it’s as if, everyday, sixteen planes flew into giant skyscrapers the size of the World Trade Center buildings, mostly full of children, killing everyone inside.
As horrific as the war in Iraq is, Iraqis aren’t the only ones on the planet who are dying. According to the United Nation’s World Food Program, every five seconds a child dies because that child is hungry.
We are not talking about war here, just everyday starvation. Children neglected by the warmongers in Washington and the finance capitalists on Wall Street. Children who could be saved, if it wasn’t for the fact that food goes primarily to those who can buy it, not to those who need it. Does that “trouble” and “grieve” Bush?
One child dead from hunger every five seconds. That’s twelve dead children every minute. That’s 720 dead children every hour. That’s 17,280 dead children every day.
The United Nations estimates that 25,000 people die every day from hunger and poverty. Obviously, a lot of them are children.
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On September 11, 2001, five years ago, 3,000 people died. That changed everything, right?
Yesterday, 25,000 people died from hunger and poverty. It’s as if sixteen planes flew into giant skyscrapers the size of the World Trade Center buildings, mostly full of children, killing everyone inside.
That changed everything, right?
Probably not, because it happened again today, and will happen again tomorrow, and again, and again, and again.
If 25,000 people die every day from hunger and poverty, that means over 9 million die every year — 6 million of them children.
That’s one-and-a-half Holocausts every year. No gas, no deliberate murder. Just deliberate neglect.