Picnics and Celebrations are Deadly

Re: "Bombs Kill 13 Afghans; Elderly Man Dies in Raid" March 22, 2010

To the Editor:

I know that it is probably the height of naivete to wonder what this world has come to when people celebrating a holiday are killed in a bombing. However, I find it difficult to understand why thirteen people were killed in Afghanistan during a Norwuz celebration. I also wonder why the news these deaths was paired with a story of an elderly man killed in a raid. These two topics had little in common other than both happened in Afghanistan and resulted in the deaths of innocent people. Both of these events are tragedies. Don't they qualify as their own story? It seems to be more tha sad that these events were shoved together in a story smashed into the margin. Surely we've become too comfortable with the deaths of people in the Middle East if the news of picnickers being killed and innocent people being killed in taids no longer warrants the front page. It is truely a sad commentary on today's world.