Massacres of the Innocents
Over the last 90 days, like so many people, I’ve been appalled by the wholesale slaughter of innocent civilians at the hands of the Russians as part of their self-styled “special military operation” in— and alleged “denazification” of—Ukraine, especially the tragic deaths of young children in the indiscriminate fusillades of artillery, bombs, and missiles hurled at Odessa and other cities. Why do Putin and his generals think that toddlers are vicious neo-Nazis worthy of extermination? However, lest I fool myself into thinking that such horrific brutality and callousness to human life is only “over there,” the recent racist-inspired mass shooting in Buffalo is bloody testimony that the Russians are not the only haters in this troubled world—and, in fact, mass murderers cut bloody swaths throughout the United States, though, technically, our country is not at war. And now comes the tragic news that still another mass murderer has butchered more children—this time 19 elementary school