Dark Days of War

As I skim through and read over several of the on-line articles, I realize there's death on all sides of this war. We can keep a tally of how many are Taliban, how many are NATO forces and how many are civilians, lest we forget, all of these people were born into this world with at least one person to love them or luckily two, even a family and perhaps a congratulatory village.

I may not know much about this war or any other war for that matter but what I do know is that the destruction to lives and land is beyond my imaginings. There are those who favour war, those who see it as a necessary evil and those who would like to see it banished from this planet forever.

Soldiers and suicide bombers have something in common, they fight to the death for what they believe is right. Who is in the right anyway? What does it matter when the result is so much lost that can never be regained?

Some day there may be a new dawn but for now the people of Afghanistan, the soldiers fighting and the families praying must all live in the dark.