Not only does war still continue in Afghanistan, but we are tragically reminded that it is a most terrible kind of war, victimizing not only soldiers but civilians – even little children.
The war in Afghanistan is not only between formal military units. An Afghan suicide bomber, apparently trying to assassinate an Afghan government leader, insanely exploded himself recently in a way that resulted in the murder of six innocent little Afghan children on their way to school.
How terrible is the kind of vicious conflict that victimizes children, killing people at random, often with no specific objective – except to terrorize the civilian population.
In many parts of the world, people live and many die facing a kind of evil that defies humanity.
We obviously do not know how to deal with such a world. There is a deadly price being paid as we seek to prevent evil from prevailing at even greater cost to humanity.