This thread is about an appeal for compassion for the innocents. Period.
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No it isn't. It's an appeal for compassion for a selected set of images. A true appeal for compassion for the innocents would have included innocents from the atrocity of 9/ll, Beslan, Madrid, Bali and the Israeli victims of suicide/homicide bombings...etc etc.
I know you mean well, but the road of good intentions is paved with pitfalls for the unwary. By posting the images of only ONE set of victims you carry the water for Hez'b'allah...IMO.
Wrong. Methinks you are protesting too much at this point. You seem to have a very strong need to diminish this tragedy; to hide it, even.
A true appeal for compassion for the innocents would have included innocents from the atrocity of 9/ll, Beslan, Madrid, Bali and the Israeli victims of suicide/homicide bombings...etc etc.
They did not happen today. Qaran did. However, those other atrocities, and Oklahoma City, were mentioned by me and others multiple times on this thread. Again, slaughter of innocents is tragic no matter whose children they are.
Eisenstein and the Soviets understood how powerful using images of endangered children were to achieve their aims. Who would ever forget that image of the baby going down the "Odessa Steps" in the Battleship Potemkin? How many became Communists based on that one scene alone?
Very well put, FN.