August 5, 2006
Lebanon Images
Often times images speak louder than words. That was true in Abu Ghraib. We knew they were torturing people right and left, but it was the images that really got into our consciousness and let us understand the inhumanity of what they were doing.
Same thing with these pictures from Lebanon. War is far away, eternal, a conflict that unless it touches us we can look away from while going with our daily routine. And then come the pictures. Of children. Children like my own, that too soon and for no reason lost their lives, were killed.
For me, the worst pictures are those of the injured children. Knowing the pain, feeling the pain they must feel. Thinking of my daughters, knowing that there is no difference. The children are our children.
Let us move to action. The world has spoken against these atrocities - but the English speaking world has been silent. Let's call our government, let's pressure them, let's take to the streets. We cannot allow this to continue happening.
