In an article concerning a misguided U.S. bomb: “a semiconscious 13-year-old named Jewad did not yet know that all eight other people in his family had been killed” (BDN, Oct. 29). This one sentence proves the hopelessness of fighting violence with violence.

President Bush talks about eradicating terrorists, and yet I cannot think of a better way of creating a terrorist than by killing a young boy’s entire family. This child will become an easy target for violent extremism, and his hate will be directed toward the United States.

Suicide terrorists tend to be young men with great hatred who have nothing to lose and do not see hope in the future. This is what our bombs have created. Bush’s “war on terrorism” may be satisfying our lust for revenge, but it is not making the United States a safer place to live.

Grant Christian

Orono