war of another type

So I was in a conversation with a good friend of mine the other day about how little we hear about the two wars America is in with Iraq and Afghanistan going on about 7 years now. The total number of human lives lost is in one way to measure the severity of any war. So when I read this statistic it highlighted itself to me. ---in our world. our generation each week AIDS takes more than ten times as many lives as the United States lost in the first five year of the war in Iraq.
(UNAIDS- report on the global AIDS Epidemic.)


however statistics are can a great tool to understanding the different areas needed to take more insight. EXCEPT..... I hate statistics..the class was way too tough.
BUT really STATISTICS about issues of poverty really fog up the human heart; it results in the power of a human life equivalent to a number. it cheapens their worth by every sense of the statistic..This is why statistics are very dangerous.

Not having Clean water is actually the biggest killer in all the world.-- As many as five million people die every year of water-related illnesses.

so I ponder this as I just brushed my teeth so very easily

-the severity of our global wars based on humanitarian measures is NOT violence.

"although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." Helen Keller