Cf. Newton and Panjwai

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amigocabal
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Cf. Newton and Panjwai

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After hearing about the school shooting in Connecticut, I looked back and recalled another mass shooting on the other side of the world, in the Panjwai district in the Kandahar province of Afghanistan.

By now, news of the shooting should have reached Kandahar, or even the very villages where those children were shot. No doubt comparisons would be made, as I am doing in this very post. (One significant difference is, that if the U.S. Army is right, then Staff Sgt. Bales did not have the decency to spare the survivors the emotional turmoil of a court-martial by killing himself.) How many of the survivors of Panjwai would reach out to the survivors in Newtown? How many of them believe the two shootings have their root in the immorality of American culture? How many of them would think the Connecticut shooting is God's judgment for the Kandahar shooting?
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amigocabal wrote:How many of them believe the two shootings have their root in the immorality of American culture? How many of them would think the Connecticut shooting is God's judgment for the Kandahar shooting?
What's the point of this question? Moreover, why do you ask people on this forum this question? Any answer to this would be idle speculation, you should be quite aware of that.
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