There are countless wars, ills, accidents and enmities in our troubled world, but we are still shocked by “man’s inhumanity to man.”
Last Monday, for example, a suicide bomber detonated himself in a truck packed with explosives outside a police headquarters near Samarra, in Iraq, killing 12 officers and wounding 20 others!
What did he “accomplish” for his “cause”?
And in Afghanistan, another suicide bomber, wearing a vest loaded with explosives, blew himself up, killing 31 innocent people who were lined up to get identification papers at a census office. What was the suicide bomber’s goal? To halt a NATO program to enroll people in what amounts to a neighborhood watch program.
Then there were four Americans sailing in the Indian Ocean, near Oman. They were seized by Somali pirates — and all four Americans were shot and killed. U.S. military personnel arrived too late for rescue, but two pirates were killed and 13 others were captured after a gun battle. The Americans had been delivering Bibles to remote areas.
These are just a few of many tragic cases.