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Correct me if I'm wrong but many important history books on the Civil War were actually written by Southerners, you know, like Shelby Foote.

"Any post having to do with politcs or relgion should be removed (including mine) ASAP."

Shall we also remove any post having to do with spelling? 😀

Well, for one thing history and in particular discussion of war is not like discussing politics and religion. It’s history. I think it’s worth discussing since there is quite a bit of confusion, two use a word, about how many causalties of war there actually are. The initial post that assumed most wars had only 25,000 to 50,000 deaths is quite misinformed. Even the current civil war in Syria has killed at least 250,000, if not many more. The American Civil war resulted in deaths of 2% of the entire population or 600,000. In fact there were NO wars EVER in history where the casualties were as low as 25,000 to 50,000. Vietnam 2 million, Afghanistan 2 million. World War I was 20,000,000. Napoleanic wars 5 million. Sino Japanese War during WWII 23,000,000.

here is the wiki page for deaths according to war,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_by_death_toll

Let’s not forget Khmer Rouge (Cambodia)

Khmer Rouge - Wikipedia
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Jump to Number of deaths - In 2014, two Khmer Rouge leaders, Nuon Chea and Kheiu Samphan, were jailed for life by a UN-backed court, which found them guilty of crimes against humanity and responsible for the deaths of up to 2 million Cambodians (Khmer), nearly a quarter of the country’s then population, during the "Killing Fields" era between 1975 and 1979.

That is because of the huge numbers killed by Stalin and Hitler in their massacres. If memory serves Stalin alone killed 30 million (average of estimates). Official estimate of total civilian deaths alone in WW II is 50-55 million. China alone reported 20 million deaths. If you throw in war related disease and famine the estimates get up around 80 million.

Don’t get down on yourself, Jitter. I see you as being a beacon of sunshine.

If you don’t like someone’s opinion tough toenails. No reason to call names though. Perhaps you just don't understand the meaning of free speech, who knows?