t r u t h o u t || Nicola Calipari and the Soldier who Shot Him

t r u t h o u t || Nicola Calipari and the Soldier who Shot Him:

"Calipari is one more name added to the vengeance toll we have extracted for September 11th. Three and a half years later, we have killed in Iraq and Afghanistan about seventy times the number of people who died that day. Seventy times. When will there be enough revenge? There is no answer to that question beyond this: Not soon enough to save Nicola Calipari, who died three years ago and didn't even know it.

I do not know the name of the soldier who shot Calipari. I don't know his age, his rank, where he is from, where he trained. I am confident, however, that he did not join the military to shoot journalists and Italian secret service agents. The fact that this happened speaks to the fear that this soldier must endure because his Commander in Chief has dropped him into a meat grinder with a very large gun."