BRATTLEBORO — On behalf of all mothers everywhere, I wish to take issue with the use of the phrase “the mother of all bombs” when referring to the recent large hole blown into Afghanistan.
A mother is a creator of life. A mother's role is to protect and nurture life, not to kill and destroy it, as bombs do.
We aging protestors can recall the Another Mother for Peace movement of the 1960s. “War is not healthy for children and other living things.” It still isn't - and it never will be.
These munitions would be more accurately described were they called “the grandfather of all bombs,” since it is the old men who so love to use them!