The New York Times today reports that the payout for the 2,973 people
killed in the 9/11 attacks is about $7 billion. That's roughly
$2,354,524 per person killed.
Since the invasion of Iraq, The United States government has killed,
surely conservatively, about 100,000 Iraqis, I wonder where we
A lot of the New York area victims were high income folks. You need to
adjust your calculations for the correct value of a human life.
Of course your ratio at the end is expressed in human beings rather
than dollars, so that's ok. Except you left out [fill in blank with
country names.]
Gene
Bill wrote:
To look at it another way, for each person killed in the 9/11
attacks, we have killed about 33 Iraqis since the invasion.
I know Bill knows this, but I feel obligated to point out that those 33
were in the wrong country.
JD
