The Daily reports:
While 144 Americans have died in Afghanistan in 2012, a whopping 228 Chicago residents have been killed, and the murder rate is up a staggering 35 percent from last year. That’s a rash of homicides quadruple the rate of New York City’s, and police and crime experts fear it may only get worse.
Death Comparison
********Chicago *********Afghanistan
2012 ....... 228 ................. 149
2011 ....... 430 ................. 418
2010 ....... 432 ................. 499
2009 ....... 458 ................. 317
2008 ....... 510 ................. 155
2007 ....... 443 ................. 117
2006 ....... 468 ................. 99
2005 ....... 448 ................. 98
Total ..... 3417 ................ 1852
It's a quagmire. We must abandon Chicago.
In no way am I trying to equate these deaths nor the manner in which these souls met their Maker. However, the point being made is abundantly clear. The number of Americans deployed to Afghanistan is far less than the number of Americans living in Chicago. The chance that an American will die in Chicago is far greater.
12 comments:
Yep. When people talk about the horrible nature of all those war dead I have to laugh right in their faces. I have some wonder, personally, if for the population and age group, if actually it is safer to be serving in the military than "on the streets" (it absolutely definitely is for minorities). Although, there are other reasons to debate this, that, or the other war, it's just this isn't one of them.
As for Chicago, it is a war zone in which CIVILIANS have been given an impossible ROE. Communists and other anti-Americans too often, in cities, and for the military, often create the ROE. I believe whoever writes ROEs, whether for civilian, police, or military, should be required to live in the toughest of those situations under their rules. Things WOULD change.
where is walter cronkite to inflame our collective conscience when we need him?
My guess Kronkite and ilk are so busily shooing for the enemy so as to keep the numbers as high, over there, as they are. When the media spoon feeds terrorists, sure they are in it for the long haul. Heck, might get their kids into the Ivy League. (seriously)
We live in a shitty world sometimes.
Maybe we should send the messiah back to Chicago to heal the community...
Silver:
It's the very same neighborhoods that the Messiah was organizing back in the day where all the murdering is taking place.
If you live in Chicago, but stay away from the neighborhoods Barack Obama once tread as a community organizer (the south side, primarily), you're perfectly safe.
Let's see, you can bet almost all Americans in Afghanistan are packing heat. I'd say it's a safe bet the residents of Chicago are unable to. Hmmm.
Nope, correlation doesn't equal causation. But am I the only one who will wonder about these things?
Doom - I remember reading in Time magazine a long, long time ago how black youths in Atlanta (maybe 1975?) were at greater risk of being shot than a soldier in the ETO during WWII.
Just another City run by the Democrats folks. Nothing to see here. Move along now.
jay - Walter is being inflamed in eternal damnation for his lies and deceit.
Silverfiddle - I'd like these pols to be forced to live in the hellholes they have created in the midst of our cities.
Fredd - yes, Obama certainly seems to have the Midass touch. Everything he touches turns to crap.
Subvet - the money quote:
"Let's see, you can bet almost all Americans in Afghanistan are packing heat. I'd say it's a safe bet the residents of Chicago are unable to."
Chicago has chosen radical liberalism. Afghanistan has chosen radical Islam. Does anyone see the similarities? They love of radicals is among us.
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