Monday, 12 March 2012

Dead is dead, however it happens

Afghanistan is awash with grief and justified anger following the terrible killing spree enacted by one (hopefully) demented GI yesterday.
But is what happened any worse than the forty-odd people in an Afghan wedding party "accidentally" killed by American airmen a couple of years ago? Or the twenty-one Palestinians killed yesterday (probably deliberately) by Israelis responding with completely disproportionate violence to rocket attacks launched from Gaza?

They're all dead, and they should all be aive today, were it not for the actions of the callous occupiers of the countries involved. And one thing is sure: in the case of the Afghanistan murders, they would not happened if the Americans hadn't been there.

The sooner the foreigners are out of there, the better it will be for everyone, especially the Afghans.

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