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Driving in the car this morning, I heard the news report that three doctors were killed by a security guard at the CURE hospital in Afghanistan, a facility that was established in 2005 at the request of the Afghan Ministry of Health, and has been treating 37,000 patients per year.
The American Embassy released the following tweet:
"With great sadness we confirm that three Americans were killed in the attack on CURE Hospital. No other information will be released at this time."
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News reports have more information, having interviewed a nurse at the hospital. It is believed a father and son who were visiting the hospital were two of the three killed. A nurse was also injured in the attack.
Does it make sense that doing something positive to help those in need should be seen as a threat?
There are some who feel we Americans are evil and deserve to be killed. Even if one could make a good case in defense of such an argument, claiming military aggression or economic supremacy as justification for such a position, surely we are not the only nation with blood and money on its hands.
The truth is when people take a stand for something, as the doctors, nurses and others working in this hospital have, they become targets. They are easy targets, the kind terrorists and cowards prefer.
They are no more than bullies with weapons, and lately, it seems, we have lost our ability to stand up to them. We are like the cowering Israelites watching Goliath approach, not knowing whom to send and what he will do.
Where is David when we need him?
If we can learn anything from our tortured past, as a nation, as a people, and children of the one true God, it should be t hat we must stand up for each other and support each other.
Is that what will happen here?
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No, what will probably happen is a handful of young people will band together, raise money selling hair braids or chocolates and fly to Kabul or Kiev or Damascus or everywhere there is injustice and terror and join hands with local kids their own age, just to teach us all a lesson.
Perhaps that is too far-fetched an idea, sounding more like a 30 year old Coke commercial than reality, but something needs to happen.
This is the world we're leaving to them, and they should be pretty ticked off at us for the job we've done.
What do we say to them when they ask what we're going to do about it?
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More to come...
Photo credit: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/04/24/afghan-security-guard-shoots-dead-3-foreigners-in-hospital/