For Pakistanis It’s A Boston Marathon

Bombing Nearly Everyday

My heart goes out to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings, one of whom was an eight year old little boy named Martin Richard who had so much life in front of him.

What a terrible and senseless tragedy. I can’t let myself think about it for too long without welling up inside.

While my timing in saying what I’m about to say may seem harsh to some, now is the only time to make this point.

For the people of Pakistan the Boston Marathon bombing happens nearly every day. Sometimes it’s a lesser bomb and fewer people are killed or injured. Sometimes it’s a much larger bomb like one example that left nearly seventy children dead at one time (that’s about three times the loss of children that happened in Sandy Hook).

Click this image to see a visual and historical representation of the drone strikes that have occurred in Pakistan during the past several years.

Now consider the Pakistani people. 99.9999% of them have nothing to do with any war. They’ve never hurt anyone. They are just like you and I. They love their family and their friends just like you and I do. Yet, even thought they have done nothing to deserve it, many Pakistani people are dying from United States air strikes.

The pain and sorrow we feel here in our nation today is shared by the Pakistani people nearly every day of the year.

Can you imagine?

What would you do if another nation was exploding that many Boston Marathon bombs in our country? Would you go to their country and set off bombs in theirs? If it ends up that it was a Pakistani who set off the Boston Marathon bomb could anyone say that it wouldn’t make some sense? Could anyone say that they couldn’t understand why a father who lost his child to a United States missile might come here for revenge?

All I’m asking us to do is realize that our nation is detonating Boston Marathon bombs nearly every day against innocent people (many of whom are children) and we have to stop.

At the very least and above all else we shouldn’t be killing children to fight terrorism.

Killing children, after all, is what terrorists do.