What Price Slaughter?

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What Price Slaughter?
In New York and Jalalabad, Human Life Is Valued Differently — by the U.S. Government

by Tom Engelhardt
What value has a human life?

...In the modern version of “child slaughter,” the U.S. government has indeed offered the world an evaluation of what price slaughter should exact in the deaths of innocents everywhere:

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.

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/14/1189/