What is wrong with this world?

[kaiser soze]

I didn't want this image to disappear in another thread because it is quite possibly one of the most profound images I have ever seen in my life.

This is a world of war, a young girl signing a rocket like soldiers traditionally do on bombs. Now I understand that children are indoctrinated into war in many nations where it has become all but embedded in their culture. We have seen pictures of young warriors with guns, having read about young women killing themselves and other with suicide bombs, or seeing horrific pictures of fathers and mothers carrying their dead children that'll be chalked up as just some more "collateral damage".

This image is a grim reminder that our children and our future are in great danger if we, the adults of this world...continue to use violence as an example of solving our problems.

I can only imagine what this girl is scribbling on this rocket....is it a smiling sun or a message of hate?

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060717/capt.c8723701e8f644f0b5befd7df750e8ea.aptopix_mide ast_israel_lebanon_asc103.jpg?x=380&y=250&sig=hPCFoxXJhOQScH9UK_Bmow--

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:(

[Miho Mingu]

Maybe they're munchkin activists.

I understand your sentiment. It sucks that kids have to grow up in war-torn countries, and witness nothing but death and destruction. I couldn't imagine the strife that goes on daily.

[kaiser soze]

even more, these children probably think it's a game

until they too recieve a rocket with a message on it

:mad:

[TurdBerglar]

i don't think those are rockets. they look like shells for the tank behind them. tank shells are massive.

[Tzar]

the girl with the pen sorta looks like a younger beastiegrrl (natalie)

[QueenAdrock]

if that was me signing it', id' be all like

all your bomb are belong to us

w00t!!111

[kaiser soze]

and you're considering a Masters in Holocaust studies?

:confused:

[QueenAdrock]

yah dued but i'm drunk :(

:cool:

[Drederick Tatum]

she's probably writing, "hey you A-rabs, rape this."

[alexandra]

i think that most of us, who have grown up in peace, see it as something obvious. and i guess it's the same with those kids, except that they see war as something obvious in their weekday.

[NoLayupRule]

Its a message of love and respect that will be mistaken as a sign of hostility. She's writing all we need is love and just trying to spread that message as far as possible

[enree erzweglle]

There was a compelling subplot related to this in Why We Fight: A father lost his adult son in the WTC attacks on 9/11 and to honor his son's memory, he wanted his son's name to be written on the side of one of the missiles that would be used in the Iraq war. After a bunch of email correspondences with various U.S. military personnel, he was able to get someone to approve his request. Later, someone sent him email with photos of the inscribed missile. It said something like "In loving memory of Son's Name." And the father was thrilled with that.

Later, when he found out that there were no WMDs, he had second thoughts about having had his son's name inscribed on that missile. But he felt that in hindsight, he made the right decision all things considered.

Two things about that. First, I don't quite understand why there being WMDs/not made a difference in his thinking. That missile was going to be used to kill people one way or the other and I would guess that none of the people that died because of that missile had anything to do with the government or any Iraqi-sponsored WMD programs.

Second, I don't think I'd ever, ever want to be associated with anything like that inscribed missile. I would want so much the opposite. For the father to do that on behalf of his son, to honor his son's life in that way...wow. I can imagine his angst and the trauma that the father suffered, but revenge doesn't sit well with me.

I wonder how many people would do something like that if given the chance--inscribe a missile. What's next, sponsoring a missile? It makes me uneasy to even think about it and you're right about that photo being chilling.

[beastiegirrl101]

the girl with the pen sorta looks like a younger beastiegrrl (natalie)

are you blind?

It has to be the hair... :(

[monkey]

oh i saw it too. she does look like you, natalie. mini-nat. why :(?

[beastiegirrl101]

oh i saw it too. she does look like you, natalie. mini-nat. why :(?

I guess I just don't see it. Other than the messy curly hair...

[Drederick Tatum]

the kid looks like Celine Dion.

[Tzar]

yeah i'll agree with that too.

[hitmonlee]

I saw the photos in a newspaper today, but from a different angle and you could read what they had written.

and what was written?!?!

[chrisd]

What's wrong is that people confuse unseen violence with peace

[drizl]

how terrible. a sad day in the history of humanity when a child signs a bomb

[tracky]

YOU IDIOTS THEY'RE NOT BOMBS THEY'RE HAPPY LOVE DROPS FIRED FROM A HAPPY LOVE CANNON AND THEY SPREAD A HAPPY LOVE GAS ALL OVER THE WORLD!

[Randetica]

awww :)

[drizl]

haha, i totally heard you say that in that sea lab voice tracky:)

[abcdefz]

What is wrong with a world where Little Man does some $21 million in one weekend?

[Randetica]

What is wrong with a world where Little Man does some $21 million in one weekend?

youre just asking for a nice bombardment with a crap taste like that

[abcdefz]

youre just asking for a nice bombardment with a crap taste like that


Hey -- I didn't go see it.

[Randetica]

you = yousa