Letter: Let’s not forget U.S.-led airstrikes killed hundreds of civilians last year
(Lt. j.g. Matthew Daniels/U.S. Navy via AP) In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, the guided-missile cruiser USS Monterey (CG 61) fires a Tomahawk land attack missile Saturday, April 14, 2018, as part of the military response to Syria's use of chemical weapons on April 7. The United States, France and Britain launched military strikes in Syria to punish President Bashar Assad for an apparent chemical attack against civilians and to deter him from doing it again.
Bashar al-Assad, the president of Syria, just launched a horrible chemical attack on his own people, killing dozens, this includes women and children.
We are all correct to be horrified, but let us not ignore our own actions.
U.S.-led airstrikes killed 1,060 civilians in Iraq and Syria in August 2017.
To yell out in rage and astonishment at the actions of Assad and then turn the other cheek to the bloody deaths caused by the U.S. is sickening.
Matthew D. Hansen, Taylorsville
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