| Missing in media reports about these things is the connection between action (our foreign military mis-adventures) and reaction (terrorist attacks). About a month ago we celebrated the mother of all bombs that flattened what amounted to a small village in Afghanistan. We were told that it killed ONLY 90 terrorists, assuming the vast area it affected was inhabited only by the killed terrorists. Not a single civilian was killed, we were told. The pilot and his crew are our heroes. Somewhere there's an Afghan from that flattened area. Even if he doesn't subscribe to ISIS/Taliban ideology, he can't be too happy. Most people in his position would feel that they have a score to settle. And when he has the opportunity, we don't make the connection. He's a terrorist, but we have our heroes. Sometimes I feel like crying, not for the dead (that won't help them), but for the rest of us still alive. |
Ha! That is probably because there's comparatively less correlation between terrorist attacks and foreign politics, than there's between terrorist attacks and attacker's religion. In case you are not aware, various islamic groups perform terrorist attacks in Philippines (look up recent news), India and Russia, the former two being 100% internal affairs.