Comments on: Tunisphere: March 20, Mayans and Arabs. http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/03/26/tunisphere-march-20-mayans-and-arabs/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Mon, 28 May 2012 09:59:54 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Peter Casier http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/03/26/tunisphere-march-20-mayans-and-arabs/comment-page-1/#comment-924164 Peter Casier Sat, 31 Mar 2007 02:30:23 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/03/26/tunisphere-march-20-mayans-and-arabs/#comment-924164 This week, we celebrate the fourth anniversary of the war in Iraq. I still remember the start very well. Time for a calculation. 1. The newspaper today states one minute of war in Iraq costs US$380,000. A calculation made by Joseph Stiglitz, a US Nobelprize winning economist. That is almost double the cost of the war in Vietnam. 2. According to WFP, the UN's food aid organisation, it costs US$0.19 to feed a child for a day. Nineteen cents. 20,000 children die of hunger every day. The time it took you to read this post, already 15 died. 3. Taking those two figures together, one minute of war in Iraq would feed 2,000,000 children for a day. One day of war in Iraq would feed 8,000,000 children for a year. 4. There are 800 million hungry in the world. Three-four months of war in Iraq would feed all hungry in the world. Three-four months of war, we have done before. Many times. But we have never fed all the hungry in the world. I do not understand. Somewhere the calculation does not make sense. Otherwise all intelligent people in the world would have cried foul. Wouldn't we? ...Wouldn't we? links: blog entry "The war in Iraq: Happy Anniversary!" http://theroadtothehorizon.blogspot.com/2006/03/news-round-up-war-in-iraq-happy.html blog entry "19 cents to feed a child for a day" http://theroadtothehorizon.blogspot.com/2006/01/news-19-cents-to-feed-child-for-day.html This week, we celebrate the fourth anniversary of the war in Iraq. I still remember the start very well.

Time for a calculation.

1. The newspaper today states one minute of war in Iraq costs US$380,000. A calculation made by Joseph Stiglitz, a US Nobelprize winning economist. That is almost double the cost of the war in Vietnam.

2. According to WFP, the UN’s food aid organisation, it costs US$0.19 to feed a child for a day. Nineteen cents. 20,000 children die of hunger every day. The time it took you to read this post, already 15 died.

3. Taking those two figures together, one minute of war in Iraq would feed 2,000,000 children for a day.

One day of war in Iraq would feed 8,000,000 children for a year.

4. There are 800 million hungry in the world. Three-four months of war in Iraq would feed all hungry in the world.
Three-four months of war, we have done before. Many times. But we have never fed all the hungry in the world.

I do not understand. Somewhere the calculation does not make sense. Otherwise all intelligent people in the world would have cried foul. Wouldn’t we? …Wouldn’t we?

links:
blog entry “The war in Iraq: Happy Anniversary!” http://theroadtothehorizon.blogspot.com/2006/03/news-round-up-war-in-iraq-happy.html

blog entry “19 cents to feed a child for a day”
http://theroadtothehorizon.blogspot.com/2006/01/news-19-cents-to-feed-child-for-day.html

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