Despicable Isis atrocities not foreign to the Middle East

AS THE deadline for the evacuation (today) of those desperate to flee the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan approached, Isis detonated a deadly suicide explosion in the airport precinct of Kabul, killing over 170 civilians together with 13 US military personnel.

This tragedy, as the events in Afghanistan unfold, brought home the reality of having to contend with these types of contemptible and despicable atrocities that are not foreign to the Middle East – not to forget where suicide bombings originated over 20 years ago.

The untimely deaths of the 13 US servicemen has a terribly profound effect on the psyche of the American public, whose outrage, as expressed in most prominent press reports, is a stark reminder of the dangers of foreign assistance to unstable areas around the world.

Why should American boys die while defending freedom and democracy?

A question that is on everybody’s lips?

Outraged and incensed are most Americans, both from the Democratic liberals to the Republicans, about the only time that the two agree on anything.

Even those high-profile celebrities, with the likes of “The Squad”: Alexandria Ocasio-cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, not to forget Trevor Noah and the Hadid girls, and of course, the left Jewish college students, who all had much to say in their condemnation of the only country in the region able to stand up to terrorism of this kind.

Just a short while back, these good folk were singing the praises of another organisation, the actual founders and inventors of suicide attacks; in fact, showing no remorse whatsoever that such attacks are perpetrated against other democracies.

In those cases the perpetrators are the heroes and the victims condemned by this coterie. Would this “set” be accused of hypocrisy?

Surely not, given the outrage demonstrated today in the US. ALLAN WOLMAN |