I honestly wonder how anyone can justify this:
A suicide bomber has killed at least 45 people at a volleyball tournament in eastern Afghanistan, officials say.
A spokesman for the governor of Paktika province told the BBC that the attacker had detonated the bomb amid a crowd of people gathering for a game.
About 60 people were also wounded in the bombing in Yahyakhail district.
As you might expect at such an event, the majority of the victims were young.
Local reports say a suicide bomber walked into the large gathering before detonating the explosives.
A spokesman for the provincial governor told the BBC that the crowd was made up mostly of young people. He said all of the casualties were civilians.
The dead and injured have been taken to a local hospital, he added, but said the governor has requested that helicopters be sent from Kabul to take the most seriously injured for treatment in the capital.
The BBC’s Richard Galpin, who is in Kabul, says a doctor at the local hospital was crying as he spoke of treating many wounded children.
He said several people had died on the journey to the hospital.
President Ashraf Ghani, who came to power in September, described the incident as a “heinous attack”, according to his spokesman.
I have no idea what the motivation was for this. I am hesitant to even hazard a guess.
Decades of death you don’t need a justification. Family members dead, neighbors dead. Your are an abused animal maybe you will roll over or maybe you will become unhinged and vicious. Lets get the fuck out of there before we lose what little humanity we ourselves have left.
Yes, then we’ll only have to deal with trigger happy cops, young men with assault weapons and semi-automatic guns that feel entitled to blow away anyone they want, and the every weekend gang shootings. And an MIC itching for another place to bomb and drive tanks and big-assed SUVs.
Yeah that’s we have “little” humanity to lose.
I never heard a peep here about this .
Oh, but those victims deserved to die, right?
No Israeli policy killed them. Israel has killed and stolen from the Palestinians. Same thing watch your family die in poverty under an illegal occupation you do the same stupid and nightmarish shit done to you. People can be driven over the edge. In this case a mentally damaged people occupy Palestine and their now unbalanced population retaliate. On and on and on.
No one deserves to die. Period. No one.
But actions have consequences and terrorism is the war tactic of those without the means to attack with bombs or tanks or rifles. And the targets of terrorist acts are those who are least likely to defend themselves.
There is a lot about Greater Israel that we do not hear about here or elsewhere. And given the willful blindness of the politics in the Knesset, the situation is going to get a lot worse.
The most likely narrative that explains why this place, why these people are the attacks on the al Aqsa mosque, but nothing about the motives of the people who carry out these kinds of acts is certain.
For example, David Gershon-Harris posted this on Twitter:
Also note that a former Mossad Director is worried:
Shabtai Shavit, Ha’aretz: Former Mossad chief: For the first time, I fear for the future of Zionism
Right on queue. It’s OK to kill Jews.
What do you want? There is no justification for murder. An Arab murderer is as evil and deserving of contempt as any other. I care more that the dead are American.
What did I want? The response you gave. Not the responses above, namely that the acts were justified based on Israeli government policy.
collective blame for Palestinians, never for Israelis
Torture is about torture.
Suicide is about self-death.
No matter the political narrative, that is what they are about.
Suicide bombing is about taking as many of your personal enemies with you as you can. The personal becomes political in the narrative constructed about martyrdom.
And all warrior societies construct some narrative of dying for ….
And all of those narratives, as George Patton pointed out are pointedly silly.
Nothing is sacred. You’re right.
People kill other people for wealth and power, and then the victims do the same if and when they get the chance.
A major portion of the world’s population is essentially suffering from PTSD.
Some places they live in the margins and do evil things like this.
In other places they make up roughly half of the government and do evil things like invade countries illegally.
Karen Armstrong on Sam Harris and Bill Maher: “It fills me with despair, because this is the sort of talk that led to the concentration camps”