“She was doing what she loved, and she was doing great things,” said her father, Tom Smedinghoff. “We’re just in total shock.” Eh, they don’t seem all that torn up about it on national television. Either they’ve cried their hearts out or they’re just really understanding. But that’s a bit suspicious and perhaps they don’t have a “beautiful soul” like everyone says she did.
She died at age 25 with four other Americans from a Taliban attack in Zabul province in southern Afghanistan. “A brave American was determined to brighten the light of learning through books written in the native tongue of students that she had never met, but whom she felt compelled to help….she was met by cowardly terrorists determined to bring darkness and death to total strangers” said John Kerry, according to a State Department transcript.
What I’m wondering is, why is she the only American to gain recognition of her good deed gone wrong? What about the other four Americans who died living the same benevolent lifestyle?
You would think everyone would learn by now that when it comes to being in a country full of people who hate your own country, the chances of you dying are significantly greater than if you just stayed to help your own country excel in their educational studies. We have enough problems here at home without sticking our nose in rotting places. When will we end this warring madness!?
