In Syria, U.S. and Russian 'good' and 'bad' bombs

ISSUE | SYRIA

Good, bad bombs

With Russia's entry into Syria's war, it didn't take long for the old Cold War claims of immoral equivalence between our two countries to emerge.

The Signe Wilkinson cartoon

(Thursday) showing a U.S. bomb and a Russian bomb being dropped there sarcastically implied that ours, labeled "Good," was no better than theirs, labeled "Bad." This ignores the fact that we are bombing mass murderers, and the Russians are bombing our moderate allies.

This reasoning is reminiscent of previous wars in Korea and Vietnam, in which the proof of which was the moral side became obvious after they were over. The subjugated people left in the "lost" half of each country knew who dropped the good bombs and who dropped the bad.

|Anthony P. Schiavo, Lafayette Hill, ant31415@aol.com