Kill mothers, keep sons planting bombs in Times Square
In the letter “Responding to terrorism” [NWVoices, May 19], Gregg Rice takes issue with “The inevitable blowback of war” [Opinion, May 17], in which columnist David Sirota writes about the possibly hundreds of civilian deaths that are the result of President Obama’s strategy of using remote-controlled warplanes firing missiles to combat the Taliban in Pakistan.
The letter reads: “The U.S. military does not intentionally target civilians. This, however, was the intent of the Times Square bomber and those responsible for the 9/11 slaughter. There is a huge, gaping moral chasm separating these admittedly tragic events.”
However, to the 5-year-old boy whose mother was killed by one of those missiles, it does not matter whether or not she was killed intentionally. All he knows is that his mom is dead, and that the Americans killed her.
As long we keep killing mothers in Pakistan, we would keep having sons planting bombs in Times Square.
— Adam Levine, Seattle