A deranged, frustrated, vengeful or drunk (you choose the proper adjective) American Sergeant gets out of his base camp Sunday at 3am, and walked off to nearby villages, breaks into three homes and kills at least 16 civilians including 9 children. President Obama calls his counterpart in Kabul to apologize and express condolences. Hamid Karzai has correctly described the incident as ‘unforgivable’.
Same day a young suicide bomber explodes himself during a funeral procession/ prayer near Peshawar, killing at least 17 people while scores injured. Taliban from Darra Adem Khel proudly accepted the responsibility for this massacre and vowed more such attacks in future. Regrettably no one apologized for the incident.
Same day another suicide bomber, believed to be a foot soldier of Boko Haram, attacked a church in Nigeria killing at least 10 people. Again no one apologized.
Earlier on Saturday six people were killed in a grenade attack in Nairobi, possibly a work of Somali group Al-Shabab. Regrettably there were no apologies.
Shouldn’t we be asking President Obama to issue a ‘blanket’ apology for all the incidents involving his men and their equally inhuman counterparts?
MASOOD KHAN
Jubail, Saudi Arabia