A day before here in the United States we honor all of those men and women who have fought for our armed services, I came across this tragic event that occurred in Khost, Afghanistan just yesterday:
There was violence as well in the southeastern province of Khost, where a barely completed high school, built with international aid, was blown up late Saturday night by men using rocket-propelled grenades and bombs. The school, which cost $220,000 to build, would have provided classrooms for 1,300 students, said Musa Majrooh, the spokesman for the Khost . A Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, denied that the Taliban were involved in the blast.
This atrocious incident was just a side story in an article about the upcoming peace jirga and Iranian training and supplying of Taliban forces. Both important stories no doubt. For today though, the intentional destruction of the high school, is the top story for me. American soldiers have fought and died for our freedom and the freedom of many other peoples in the past 200 odd years and they are doing so again in Afghanistan today. The Taliban have shown were they stand on human rights for the citizens of Afghanistan and it involves destroying schools. The United States is in Afghanistan for many reasons, with our national security being the most important, but our soldiers are also there to bring a more hopeful and free future for the people of Afghanistan. It is for that for so many other reasons that we should all applaud our veterans today and the day after, the day after that…
