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Afghanistan carnage

August 25, 2009 By dev 2 comments

If it’s true that horrific terrorist attacks are the inevitable and understandable result of violence perpetrated by the U.S. and its allies against Muslims, then someone needs to reconcile that with events like these:

A huge bomb detonated in the center of the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Tuesday night, flattening a two-story building and destroying 20 homes in a neighborhood where international aid organization offices and a United Nations compound are clustered, and shaking the entire city, witnesses and officials said.

At least 31 people were killed and 56 wounded in the blast, which took place just after dusk at 7 p.m., when Afghans were gathered for the festive evening meal that breaks their daily Ramadan fast. Officials said most of the dead and wounded were civilians.

The Taliban are the suspected culprits, thought they haven’t claimed responsibility as of this writing. As I’ve noted before, the majority of civilian deaths in Afghanistan, according to the UN, have been caused by the Taliban and its allies, not the U.S. and NATO. So those on the antiwar left who condemn “the criminal U.S. occupation of Afghanistan” without so much as mentioning the Taliban’s existence may want to offer a word of sympathy for the Muslim victims of this Kandahar attack, who were slaughtered with deliberate cruelty, and with absolutely no regard for their innocence, by supposed defenders of Muslims.

2 Comments

  1. Media Mentions-
    August 25, 2009 at 5:45 pm

    "War Changes are on the Way"… let's hope so. http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/showlink.aspx?bookmarkid=3LCP5LH6VP03&preview=article&linkid=7e4f19eb-a68a-49d5-a5d4-4ad4d8c294c7&pdaffid=ZVFwBG5jk4Kvl9OaBJc5%2bg%3d%3d

    Best regards,
    MediaMentions

  2. David R. Adler-
    August 25, 2009 at 6:02 pm

    Whether the U.S./Nato should broaden its engagement is a different matter – there are critiques of current U.S. military strategy that should be taken seriously. The "anti-imperialist" critique, however, which paints the U.S. as the sole aggressor in the region, is dishonest, willfully ignorant.