Starvin Larry

The number of US air strikes around the world this century is mind-boggling. Of course, the collateral damage people we kill or maim, and their friends and relatives, hate us for our way of life, not because they’ve been bombed. From Nicolas J.S. Davies, at consortiumnews.com:

U.S. Central Command’s latest figures on its aerial bombardment of Iraq and Syria reveal that this is the heaviest U.S. bombing campaign since President George W. Bush’s “Shock and Awe” campaign against Iraq in 2003. In the campaign’s first ten months from August 2014 to May 2015, the U.S. and its allies conducted 15,245 air strikes, or an average of 51 air strikes per day.

This is only the latest campaign in a 15-year global air war, largely ignored by U.S. media, in which the United States and its allies have conducted at least 118,000 air strikes against other countries since 2000. The 47,000…