Yesterday a u.s. air raid in Afghanistan killed as many as 150 people and in its wake, the “peace president” Obama is preparing to send 21,000 more reckless troops to Afghanistan to fill more tractor trailers with pieces of human bodies.
According the report cited above, the Pentagon is preparing to put its spin on the event by blaming the Taliban for “staging” the massacre. The Red Cross as well as the local population insist that u.s. air strikes were the cause. What is your gut reaction? Who are you immediately inclined to believe? Take this to prayer. Attention to your gut reaction might indicate what kind of preferential options lie at the heart of your spirituality.
We’re already hearing “apologies” from Obama and Clinton. We’ve heard them before. The u.s. never really means to kill anyone with the bombs that it drops. 150 people an accident? I’m with Yifat Susskind who writes:
Soon enough we’ll be hearing the official “regrets.” I don’t want to hear them. I’m sick of the twisted logic that allows the US military to drop bombs on people and then claim it was a mistake when the bombs land on people. You don’t deliberately do something with a known outcome and then get to call the result a mistake.
A massacre is a large-scale, indiscriminate killing; which is precisely the known outcome of the US air strikes in Afghanistan. So let’s call this a massacre. And let’s work to end the air strikes before another Afghan family has to hear how sorry the US military is. (Empahasis added)
It’s time pro-life Catholics in the united states made a consistent preferential option for all victimized human life and begin to unambiguously oppose the terrorism actively committed by their government. And it’s time for President Obama — who has made some significant moves against torture — to end the blatant and disgusting disregard for human life that is continually committed by “our boys,” now under his command.
Get u.s. soldiers out of (insert country here) now, before they kill again.
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