July 25, 2006
Poster children
Here is the iconic picture that should be on the front page of The New York Times, and every other self respecting newspaper in the country.
But it isn't. It's much too "terrible".
Reality is much too terrible.
We shouldn't have to look at something like this, nor would we want to expose our children to it, although it's perfectly fine to expose Lebanese children to worse.
William Sloane Coffin said that evil is the lack of imaginative sympathy for others. We are seeing it here.
Although Condi doesn't think it's so bad. She took her own sweet time, but of course her favorite cowboy is calling the shots with a little help from his friends. Meanwhile thousands have died, lost their homes, are permanently maimed and traumatized. The economy of a democracy is devastated. Perhaps there are a more than a few Lebanese who have developed hatred toward the USofA. Just what we had in mind.
It is said that with the publication of Nick Ut's photograph of Kim Phuc, the napalmed Vietnamese child, public support for the Vietnam war began to wane.
What images do we need to see this time to understand the what we have wrought, to put a stop to the lizard-brained behavior of our leadership -- or are we much too busy saving the frozen fetus.
Photo note: Recognize the lizard?
Addendum: Now that you looked at the horrors, you could probably use a shot of breathtaking beauty
Posted by Dakota at July 25, 2006 07:19 AM