Goodbye Swine Flu Pandemic .... Welcome Airstrike Pakidemic (and Afghanidemic)!

In Deference to both Serenissima and Aunt Nancy, I am only showing photos that depict the more beautiful side of war--the "clean" airstrikes that do not leave broken, bleeding bodies and gore strewn about the target area. This photo shows that our drones are targeted and our pilots are so well trained that deaths are both clean and (probably) painless. War, in the cause of goodness and God's will is a beautiful process. Think of the "Rockets red glare, bombs bursting in air ..."

Ignore my previous postings lamenting the most recent death of an American to the burgeoning swine flu. The real pandemic is WAR!!

In the photo above, villagers mourn children and other civilians killed on Wednesday before burying what the international Red Cross said were dozens of Afghans and Pakistanis — including women and children — killed in American bombing runs. A former Afghan government official said up to 120 people may have died there.

Another 50 or so civilians died in Pakistan earlier in May from American airstrikes.

That makes the swine flu no more than a blip in the scheme of things, don't you think?

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the U.S. "deeply, deeply" regretted the loss of innocent life, and the U.S. military dispatched a brigadier general to investigate the deaths in two villages in western Afghanistan's Farah province.

The number of civilians killed in Afghanistan's and Pakistan's worsening conflict jumped 40 percent (on a weekly basis) to a new high this year. The only confirmed statistics show that a record 2,118 civilians died from violence last year, up from 1,523 the previous year.

" ... Gave proof through the night ... that our flag was still there!"