Perhaps the american soldier who killed 16 Afghan civilians should never have been in that country.He had seen three tours of duty in Iraq, had been wounded, and evidently did not want to go to Afghanistan.
After what he went through what he did in Iraq, he probably should have been sent to wherever he wanted to go, which might have been home. The United States is paying $50,000.00 to each family for each person killed, which can and must be seen as a nice geture on the part of the americans.
In american law, wrongful death seems to result frequently in cash payments, notwhithstanding widespread belief in the concept that human life is priceless. WE must not make the mistake of thinking that there is any funadmemtal difference between these sixteen murders, and all the rest of the murders which have taken place in Afghanistan in recent years.
Every death in war is a murder. The death of a volunteer prosfessional soldier at the hands of another volunteer professional soldier is, flatly, murder. We humans murdered over one hundred million of each other during the last century, despite the teachings of Christ, and other teachers of wisdom.
May we as a global culture some day find all murders in all wars to be as disgusting and reprehensible as that of the sixteen civilians in Afghanistan.
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Well said, TR.
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