From Iraq, With Love

A long, long time ago, there Americans were killed en masse on American soil. A nation rallied to arms, and two far-away nations were destroyed. From the ashes of these nations rose a trans-state terrorist threat that took over 33,000 lives and for a second held the entire world in a grip of fear. These nations, Iraq and Afghanistan, lost about 200,000 civilians and 49,000 civilians, respectively. Why?

Retaliation.

And in Israel, it’s more of the same. Bombs don’t care who they land on, and bullets don’t care who they pierce. The number of deaths in Palestine number nearly ten-thousand. How many of those are civilians? It’s unlikely that anyone can give an accurate number. And yet, the bombs still fall.

We wonder what will rise from the ashes of this conflict?