A Factual Response to the Professor Who Said America is More ‘Brutal’ Than ISIS
Time to fact check this professor’s opinion.
The College Fix reports.
FACT CHECK: A data-driven response to professor who says America is more ‘brutal’ than ISIS
When a Rutgers University journalism professor’s infamous tweet went viral earlier this month, claiming that America was more “brutal” than the self-proclaimed Islamic State because of the death toll from modern American military campaigns, the response was predictable.
The debate on Fox News and other outlets focused on the inflammatory comparison and whether Deepa Kumar was a hypocrite for trying to stop Condoleeza Rice’s commencement speech at Rutgers. (Rice eventually withdrew herself following a disinvitation campaign by Kumar and her colleagues.)
What interests me more as an Iraq war veteran is that no one seems to be challenging the supposed facts that Kumar quoted in her tweet.
Kumar cites the far-left website Democracy Now! for the 1.3 million-killed claim, and that site in turn cites a study that attempts to quantify how many casualties have occurred since the U.S. military interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
There are a few problems with the study, conducted by the German affiliate of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.
FACT CHECK: A data-driven response to professor who says America is more ‘brutal’ than ISIS (The College Fix)