In War, Children Get Killed: Girls’ Elementary School in Minab, Iran
War planners like to brag their technology precisely targets the people they understand to be killable while minimizing civilian casualties. In the case of the Minab Girl’s School Air Strike on February 28, 2026, a map showing a military target was outdated, and when they aimed at the spot, they hit a girls’ school. At least 85 girls ages 7-12 were killed and about 60 injured (so the initial death toll may rise).
There are many complications in this war. As Tom Friedman put it in The New York Times, “I expect by Wednesday there will be at least three more points competing in my head to make sense of it all, because this is the most plastic, unpredictable moment in the Middle East since the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Everything — and its opposite — is possible.”
Set aside complications and predictions, and we have this simple observation: wars brutally kill innocent little children. Expecting to have a war without that is naïve.
Rest in Peace: Colman McCarthy
Colman McCarthy died on February 27, 2026. He was a Washington Post columnist (1969-1997) and a long-time peace activist who was among the first endorsers of what is now the Consistent Life Network Mission Statement. He directed the Center for Teaching Peace in Washington, D.C. that taught thousands of students nonviolence and peace studies at universities and high schools. See his list of books, and the quote of the week below.
Recently, the Consistent Life Action Fund received the final report on a grant given to the Education and Life Foundation of Pakistan. In this project, 10 impoverished, pregnant females were provided with monthly food packages for 10 months. The food packages also contained soap and detergent since good hygiene is critical to good health.
According to the report, all the beneficiaries were very grateful for the food packages. They no longer had to skip meals, and their health improved. Among the testimonials, one mother wrote that she considered an abortion because of lack of resources, but a friend told her it was a sin to waste a precious life and registered her for the food program. The mother said it was a huge blessing for her family.
CLAF is pleased to have been a part of saving a child’s life and bringing desperately needed assistance to destitute mothers and their unborn children.
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The Washington Post, April 11, 1992
In early January 1991, when U.S. pilots were about to launch round-the-clock bombing runs, Colin Powell vowed to isolate the Iraqi army and "kill it." Not kill "them." That would give the game away: Human life would be taken. The euphemisms of war are like those of abortion. An "it" is terminated, not a life. Whether it's abortion rights that are being defended by Patricia Ireland or war rights by Norman Schwarzkopf, the rights being exercised are those of the strong over the weak.