Yesterday's vile attack by your air force on the Mdecins sans Frontires
hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killed twelve medical staff and at least seven
patients.  Three of them were children.  Six of them were burnt alive in their
intensive-care beds.

The United States' culpability is compounded by your ongoing refusal to
participate in the International Criminal Court to any extent other than that
of an observer.  You prefer, instead, to have your Department of Defence
investigate itself.  The result will be predictable: nobody will be held to
account, not the commanders who gave the orders and not the pilots who
unquestioningly pulled the trigger.

How can such a violent and xenophobic regime as the United States be permitted
to continue to hold the world's largest arsenal of weapons of mass
destruction?

We must understand why the Americans are so constantly at war with the rest of
the world.  Is it simply because you hate our way of life?

Perhaps at some collectively subconscious level, you also envy our freedoms.
Having no written Bill of Rights, after all, we are not subject to the
doublethink which you Americans must continuously impose on yourselves so as to
make believe that you exist in a free state in which codified rights are fully
implemented in daily life, even as your politicians take aim at difference and
diversity, even as your police shoot first and ask questions later, and yes,
even as your military commits mass murder at the touch of a trigger button.

The United States will not, in the end, profit from yesterday's attack.
Instead the United States will only suffer the blowback from the ill will and
new enemies that its aggression will have created.  Mr Obama, how many
terrorists did your bombing create yesterday; how many freedom-loving people
now will take their fight to the United States?