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Determining whether deaths were intentional and who bears direct responsibility is outside the scope of the study, Savell said.
“You can’t separate out who caused the death because there’s lots of different warring parties” and other complicating factors, from authoritarian rule to climate change, Savell said. “The point is to say the U.S. has been involved in these really violent wars. There’s been an intensification as a result of U.S. involvement. And at this point, the issue is really: How do we come to terms with a sense of responsibility?”
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I think the last paragraph of the article is important when doing the calculus on this. This study does not assess the non-intervention scenario or if all following deaths are in the US hands.
Iraq 2 was still a humanitarian disaster. But I think Syria and Somalia are a more interesting discussion