Hospital bombing was tragedy
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Editor,
Twenty-seven dead and still counting, including nurses, doctors, elderly and children. And, as reported by an intelligence official, the hospital may not have been the intended target, because the suicide bomber detonated the device as police tried to stop his car.
The tragedy at the Logar hospital in Afghanistan on Saturday, June 25, is a perfect example of the futility and absurdity of any conventional large and well-equipped military force being able to bring peace, harmony, stability and order into a tribal-based society built upon hundreds of years of conflicts so inbred and deep that they are impossible to even understand.
Reminds me of some of the extreme racial, right-to-life and sexual orientation anger outbursts we witness over and over again right here in good old America. And did you know Texas is thinking of issuing a Confederate license plate? Does that have any chance of perpetuating old hates and hurts?
My point is this: every nation and every region of the world has its history and its cultural curiosities and challenges that will never be changed or corrected by military means. The only means by which such change and correction will occur is by education, spiritual revivals, and people finally learning the great lessons which were the very foundations of every spiritually-based religion ever born, and that is believing in a Higher Power and learning to love one another despite our differences in appearance and ways of living life.
Bob McClellan
Polson
