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That 10x figure doesn't sound right to me. Between the Taliban and government forces, Wikipedia says there were over 130,000 killed. Have over a million Mexicans died in the drug war?

Otherwise, (as I assume) you are comparing foreigners killed in Afghanistan to Mexicans killed in Mexico, which doesn't seem like a fair comparison.

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Technically, Afghanistan has been in a continuous state of warfare since 1979 the most bloody of which were the civil wars of armed militias around Kabul in the early 90s although the Soviet invasion was pretty unconcerned with collateral damage. The Taliban eliminated that and arguably saved many lives in the process. In the broadest since the entirety of the Afghanistan conflicts easily stretches into millions dead, but I was only speaking to the US conflict.

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