Bombers

May, 2002

The world is repulsed by the sucide bombers that are being used against the people of Israel. Somehow it seems not-human to kill yourself intentionally, even for God or Country. Every nation that fights wars loses men, but they are trying not to be killed. That is a significant difference, we say.
Another extreme is the American Bombers. They come in at high altitudes where they cannot be seen, perhaps even heard, against a people who have no radar or guns that will reach that high. The population is often unaware that there are any Americans or airplanes anywhere at all. These bombs also explode suddenly and unexpectedly, yet the American Bomber is in little mortal danger.
Of course, the main objection to the Palestinian Bombers is that they seem to target, not military targets, but children and recreational areas. But so do the American Bombers, not intentionally perhaps, but unknowingly. The number of Afganistan civilian casualties will never be known, and American political leaders deny every number and every mistake they make,(except for the hospitals which like destroyed, and of course the American Red Cross headquarters in Afghanistan (which was bombed twice!)) yet the amount of innocent civilians killed by the American Bombers will clearly be far greater than all the innocent casualties wrought by the Palestinian Bombers.