Maybe it is more of a case of JUBBERs being too smart to be sucked into a random argument based upon someone's political agenda. This forum isn't CE&P. The topic is not new, nor the syndrome.
Many of us opposed the wars and have already posted to that effect. You could throw up statistics about slave deaths in the 19th century; that doesn't constitute defense of slavery by us nor interest in hand-wringing about it.
Scotland suffered 485 drug deaths in 2010 out of a national population of 5,170,492. In the same year, the U.S. suffered the 6,500 deaths out of a population of 307,745,538. Scotland's deaths constituted 0.0094% of the population, whereas the U.S. deaths constituted 0.0021%.
So, it's clear that almost five times more people die in Scotland from drugs than Americans from PTSD. Anyone can pull out random statistics and make an argument of it.
Telstra's premise appears designed to bait Americans. The underlying assumption is that Americans don't know or care about these deaths, which is not substantiated. There are many times that number of deaths associated with poverty and related effects, but it doesn't follow that we don't care about it. Many people here are working on it.
If we are not doing enough about it, then that is another thing on the list. All countries have their woes.
I don't see any threads starting down the lists on Australia's or Scotland's ills. Maybe it is because Americans don't have the same malice towards our brothers abroad as we see in these anti-American threads.
That you care very deeply is commendable. That you are angry that others do not share your resonance is a project of the personal that is unreasonable.
