Who's Sorry Now?
Shouldn't we all shed a tear when children are caught in the middle of the insanity. Whether it's the neocons idiocy of a new middle east, the addiction to oil that prompts the permanent military bases in Iraq as the TRUE goal, the new alignment of world powers - children dying is hard to take. And that should touch all of us.
Since when did we all just blindly accept that peace takes war?
Over at CrooksandLiars, John Amato has been highlighting an amazing young girl's work...15-year-old Ava from Alabama. This video is Peace Takes Courage - What Would Jesus Do, focused on Iraq...it applies to the news from Lebanon that the Israeli's killed children today as well:
Israeli missiles hit several buildings in a southern Lebanon village as people slept Sunday, killing at least 56, most of them children, in the deadliest attack in 19 days of fighting. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert expressed "great sorrow" for the airstrikes but blamed Hezbollah guerrillas for using the area to launch rockets at Israel, and said he would not halt the army's operation. (more)
