Agony of Syrians unbearable for Americans: Commentator
Press TV has conducted an interview with Jim W. Dean, a managing editor of the Veterans Today from Atlanta, to ask for his insights into the increasing death toll over three years of foreign-sponsored militancy in Syria.
The following is a rough transcription of the interview.
Press TV: Mr. Dean I just read off a number of figures there, which are easy to rid of, but putting that into context, these are human beings, especially the innocents who are killed. How do you think if at all the US is reflecting on this role models?
Dean: I think, they are reflecting on it, because they can’t really relate to what’s going on there and they can’t relate to the numbers. But so, one of things I did when I went to the Syrian elections last summer, when I came back, I experimented with trying to shock them with the numbers by comparing them of what of this had been in the United States and the same types of numbers of casualties had been inflicted. And the 240,000 dead now will equate to 3.3 million Americans, the 12,000 children dead would equate to 168,000. And the numbers of Syrian troops killed 50,000 which is what we lost exactly roughly in Vietnam. That would compare to 700,000 dead here in the US. And the number that would make an impression of American people is that twice the number of KIAs that we had during the World War II. I experimented with those numbers in the light kind of came on. And you could see people had never really thought about how much death is really going on there. You have to compare it to what if these are happening here. When we want not a threat to anyone. You had fighters from a hundred countries are coming into your country and no one had declared war and you want a threat to anybody. What would we do? Everybody basically say we would nuke anybody that do this to us.
Press TV: What kind of impact does this have on the region, irrepairable impact I would imagine?
Dean: It’s, we’re hoping that with the Iran agreement and as things open up and more Westerners can get into Iran. We’re hoping to see an expansion in their media. And you won’t have the censorship, it is going to be a little harder to justify now. That the story the real details and the personal tragedies of the slaughters would be more real to Western people and that will help trigger some political pushback on it, which we desperately need to stop it.
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