"I want to ask one question from American — why they are killing our innocent people," he says. "They are killing student and saying they are Taliban, [that] they are al-Qaida and they are belonging with the terrorists."
I suppose we kill them because we can do so with impunity. Hearts and Minds are what we say we seek, but we have to truthfully admit that we seek those things in a manner that recalls the less appealing Aztec gods receiving their sacrificial victims.
We create despair at home while we kill abroad. Even though individually most of us are decent people of humble faith, when we exert ourselves as a group, as a polity, as a nation, we become the paradigm of Nature red in tooth and nail. When we pray alone, how many of us declaim against other faiths and their faithful? Yet let us come together for worship, and worship gives way to the politics of denunciation and confrontation where we pit soapstone idols against each other like cocks fighting in a pit.
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