What? This family didn't observe Holy Ramadan fasting until midnight? And the bomb we aimed at him took out his 'hands and his eyes'? If you try to think through the mechanics of that combination of injuries you have to wonder how it could happen. Was he covering his eyes with his hands ... his hands and eyes got blown away? The rest of him was OK?
The baby put her bandaged head on her older sister's bony shoulder, and closed her eyes.
PLEASE! John Donnelly, if that's your real name, you should be ashamed of yourself. This is the most lame fiction I have ever read. SHAME ON YOU!
If you have to ask, no explanation is possible.
You are one sick dude if you believe there is such a thing as an antiseptic war, and if you are unaware that there are people who drag their women and kids to or near military targets, and that is never an acceptable reason for not attacking it.
I had a look at the picture. It is truly and genuinely heartbreaking. I am deeply sorry this child is having to go through this.
War is hell.
So what do you propose? Stop the bombing?
We could do that. Then a year or two from now, we'll likely have not just a few, but thousands upon thousands of little children just like this boy lying in hospitals, dying of radiation poisoning. Along with their mommies and daddies.
I've been just about the first and most vociferous to stand up against the "nuke 'em all" crowd here, and I've taken plenty of heat for it, too. I'm all against civilian casualties whenever and wherever possible.
But we must wage war, since war has been declared and committed upon us, and directly and deliberately upon our innocent civilians, and no matter how much due diligence we exercise to avoid civilivan casualties, guess what? They're going to happen.
If we fail to prosecute the war to its successful conclusion, we'll have far more civilian casualties in the long run. And these thousands will be American children. Is this what you want? A thousand such horribly injured children? Or do you really think these murdering bastards bent upon the destruction of our society, and upon world domination by radical Islam, will be nice and kind to us if we'll just say, "That's okay. We forgive you."
We must continue to fight the war, and we must win it. I hope and pray our armed forces will exercise as much care as they can along the way to avoid civilian casualties.
But if you want to know who's to blame for that suffering little boy who now faces a future with no eyesight and no hands - the names are: "al Qaeda" and "The Taliban".
P.S: piss on your web site.