U.S. Copter Down in Iraq; 12 Believed Dead
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter went down in northern Iraq, killing all 12 Americans believed to be aboard in the deadliest crash in nearly a year, while five U.S. Marines died in weekend attacks, the military said Sunday.The latest deaths followed an especially bloody week in which about 200 Iraqis and a dozen U.S. troops were killed. Iraqi politicians, meanwhile, claimed headway in forming a stable coalition government following the Dec. 15 elections, whose final results may be released this week.
U.S. military officials said the UH-60 Black Hawk crashed just before midnight Saturday about seven miles east of Tal Afar, a northern city near the Syrian border that has seen heavy fighting with insurgents.
"All (those killed) are believed to be U.S. citizens," military spokesman Lt. Col. Barry Johnson said.
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posted by _H_ at 3:09 am
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Agreed. It's all ebb and flow. I imagine much of the right-wing discussion you mention is inspired by Buchanan's "Death of the West" which focuses on that same, curiously biological argument. Low birth rates among white Europeans etc. It is indeed a natural result of social and economic changes. The more well-off and better educated a group is (in this case Western white caucasians) the fewer children they tend to have, choosing instead to invest more time and money into one or two offspring - i.e. private colleges. Poorer minority groups tend to be more religious and have more children which leads them to eventually become the majority. I wouldn't worry about causcasians disappearing entirely. It'll probably just become the case that in 200 years a white minority will be pumping gas and cleaning toilets, while America's well-to-do hispanic majority worries about illegal white immigrants from Canada stealing their jobs and driving down wages. Ebb....and flow.:P
Way, way off topic here (and you are welcome to delete it, _H_). I once had a right-winger tell me that the illegal immigrants streaming across the border into the U.S.A. are part of a clandestine plot by the Mexican government to take over the southern United States of America. I shit you not.
As for the babies, nothing lowers the birth rate like the empowerment of women.
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