Editor,
I was appalled at the juxtaposition of photograph and caption that appeared on your front page this morning. I would like to suggest a correction to the caption, which clearly did not accurately reflect the events in the picture.
My caption would read, "Barbarians murder defenseless wounded man." You mentioned an execution, but that word implies some attempt at due process and justice. Pulling the man's pants off him in the street, perhaps to rape him before murdering him, and then having three men stand around and gun him to death is an atrocity, not an act of justice.
The Taliban are clearly brutal, and one would hope that eradicating their hold over the people of Afganistan would be a positive step. Seeing the kind of people who will be stepping into their shoes, as so graphically displayed in this photo, makes me wonder.
Once again, the United States supports one gang of thugs and murderers because we want another group of the same kind of people taken out of power. The names and faces change, but the brutality lives on. Will we be fighting against the Northern Alliance on behalf of their victims five years from now?
Robin I. Miller
Visiting Lecturer, UNM College of Nursing
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