‘Eighty thousand people died in less than a minute when the nuclear bomb was dropped over Hiroshima and another 60 000 in Nagasaki: this is almost double the estimated deaths in the Syrian conflict that completed its second year.’
I overheard this discussion while having breakfast at the hospital I work in. Later on the same day, I heard on the news a foreign minister saying that it is a moral obligation of his country to send arms to one of the parties in the Syrian conflict. A few days later, a guy who saw the movie Lincoln, was surprised to know that more than 600 000 US lives perished during the 4 years of the Civil War in the 19th century. Again, a comparison was made with the number of human beings lost to the conflict in Syria. …