danc@mako.UUCP (04/26/84)
It saddens me to hear of it. The massive slaughter of human life, of a nation, of people, of their will to live, to be free. I hear of wars now constantly, and I am, unfortunately, numb to alot of it. But this butchering and raping of the nation of Afganistan is hard for me to take. The brutal reality of the actions of the Soviet Union cannot be debated. It makes irrelevent the political propaganda and rhetoric between the Republican and Democratics parties, between NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries, between the USA and the USSR. Yet as time goes on we become numb to Afganistan too. The Soviets and their surrogates apparently have a license to kill innocent people by the thousands per year. The press pays scant attention to all the victims. Life goes on for the living. We have come to forgive the actions of the Soviets when they are unforgiveable. Why are the Soviets in Afganistan? When you answer that question you also answer why they or their surrogates are in South Yemen, Angola, Poland, the Warsaw Pact Countries, Somalia, South Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Cuba, ... I am not debating the regional political or economic causes. I am only stating that their intentions cannot be confused or misunderstood. The Soviets are dissuaded from murder and subjugation when their victims are capable of defending themselves. Only then. Otherwise, when the opportunity presents itself, they will attack. I am tired of the killing. I wish they hadn't died. I wish that the killing would stop. That the tears of the survivors could be dried. That the anguish could end. This is not a political statement. This is a statement of anguish and frusration and sympathy for the victims and their survivors. I wish it would end.