The wars

The wars have directly or indirectly killed around one million people in Iraq, 220,000 in Afghanistan and 80,000 in Pakistan. Not included in this figure are deaths in other war zones such as Yemen or Palestine. And this is only a conservative estimate. The figure is approximately 10 times greater than what the public, experts and decision makers are aware of. 

Similar to how the Vietnam War was reported, there seems to be a distancing of the impacts on the people on the ground in war reporting. We have certainly accounted for the dead and wounded Americans and Europeans – in terms of the numbers of US troops and NATO forces affected in the various conflicts – but the deaths of local people and the destruction there, is, for various reasons, very deliberately or through self-censorship, kept from the American people so 
we don't see the real costs.

Ted Rudow III, MA, CA, USA