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  3. The Gulf War The Pentagon ordered 16,099 body bags to be shipped to the Persian Gulf to bring home dead Americans. In the end, 1

The Gulf War The Pentagon ordered 16,099 body bags to be shipped to the Persian Gulf to bring home dead Americans. In the end, 1

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问题 The Gulf War
The Pentagon ordered 16,099 body bags to be shipped to the Persian Gulf to bring home dead Americans. In the end, 15,773 of the bags were not necessary.
The Iraqi army would have needed--what? One hundred thousand body bags? More? No one knows or will ever know. No one has counted the Iraqi corpses(尸体). Many of them were buried in the sand, without ceremony; some have been taken care of by vultures.
That so few soldiers in the coalition died somehow seemed to Americans a vindication. It was even a return of their shining self, of Buffalo Bill, who (@E.@@E.@Cummings wrote) could "ride a water smooth-silver stallion and break one two three four five pigeons just like that." The unspoken text was this: the nation had recovered its immunity, its divine favour, or anyway its gift for doing things right. The victory was as satisfying as anything Americans have done together since landing on the moon.
Would it be seemly to have a moment of silence for the Iraqi corpses?
It is not inconsequential (不合理的) to kill 100,000 people. That much life suddenly and violently extinguished must leave a ragged hole somewhere in the universe. One looks for special effects of a metaphysical (超自然的) kind to attend so much death—the whoosh of all those souls departing. But many of them died ingloriously (不体面的), like road kill, full of their disgrace, facedown with the toot scattered around them. The conquered often die ignominiously. The victors have not given them much thought.
Still, killing 100,000 people is a serious thing to do. It is not equivalent to shooting a rabid dog, which is, down deep, what Americans feel the war was all about, exterminating a beast with rabies. All those 100,000 men were not megalomaniacs (夸大狂者), torturers and murderers. They did not all commit atrocities in Kuwait. They were ordinary people: peasants, truck drivers, students and so on... They had the love of their families, the dignity of their lives and work. They cared as little for politics, or less, than most people in the world. They were, precisely, not Saddam Hussein. Which means, since Saddam was the coalition’s one true target in all of this, that those 100,000 corpses are, so to speak, collateral (附带的) damage. The famous smart bombs did not find the one man they were seeking.
选项 A、16,099.
B、15,773.
C、226.
D、Over three hundred.
答案D
解析 原文第一段说五角大楼预订了16,099只运尸袋，但战争结束后，有15,773只袋子没有用上。这就意味着只有326只袋子被用上，即有326人死于战争。所以选项中只有D项符合原文。
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