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I disagree with statements in Salim Muwakkil’s “Perverse incentives of terrorism war” (Commentary, June 10). India and Pakistan were in dispute long before the Bush administration bombed Afghanistan. Also, we do not have “a special obligation to model civilized restraint” when our own airplanes are used against us as bombs to kill Americans.
Muwakkil says that the target was not just the Taliban but “also the people and land of Afghanistan.” Osama bin Laden targeted as many Americans as possible by attacking some of the world’s largest buildings. In contrast, U.S. bombs spared Afghan villages, and we even dropped food to them.
