Afghan Massacre - Part Who Knows

I find it ironic that when WE WITH SUPERIOR FIRE POWER commit atrocities and killing of innocent people the story turns (at least in the home country and I am sure also in the surrogate nations) to a personal human one with kids, no job, stress, losing comrades in arms, PTSD,........ The focus is on how tough the young man or men had it with multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. The in depth coverage of personal life history of the young man makes you to at one point feel sorry for him and ask that he be treated for mental health problems. He is behind on his mortgage payments and disturbed by violence of the war, dam it he needs help. In about four weeks the media will even stop referring to the killing of 16 women, children, and men as massacre. The story will take the savagery of the massacre and spins it to well patterned human tragedy with old high school buddy, neighbor, mom, wife, grade school teacher, pastor,.......

I wonder if few of the chicken shit political leaders and media moguls would have taken the same approach with the sick minded 19 men (and few other cohorts) that boarded the planes on September, 11 2001. Instead the story turned into much bigger (made up of course) enemy namely "Extremest Islam-o-fascists" portrayed as well organized huge group with standing army and mass support in Middle East and Africa. Then it was not about how these young men with mental health issues were driven to do such a inhuman act. Perhaps if we had reacted the same way we are reacting to this soldier killing 16 Afghan people point blank huddled in their mud homes world would have been in a better place.

The legacy of the 9/11 will haunt us for a long time.