Suffer the little children...

[bobquasit]

Here are a couple of photos of some of the grateful young beneficiaries of our new Nobel Peace Prize President's policies:





They must feel very honored.

Found these via Glenn Greenwald over at Salon.

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More Askville discussion.

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Thank, *Goldie*, for at least looking at them. I've been monitoring discussions on several different sites, and you are the FIRST person to actually acknowledge the damn photos.

I can't agree with the phrase "collateral damage". It seems to me that that's just a way of prettying up the fact that we are in a war which is not necessary to our national survival, and in which we know that we will inevitably cause many injuries and deaths among innocent civilians. Just because we call them "collateral", doesn't mean that they somehow don't matter.

I realize that you aren't saying that they don't matter - but I believe that the "collateral damage" phrase was invented and has been historically used to somehow excuse or brush aside these atrocities. Because that's what they are - atrocities.

As for hoping that the Peace Prize will somehow inspire Obama to change his war policies, I devoutly hope that you're right. But his record so far doesn't give me much hope. And forgive me for saying this, but by the same logic we should have awarded Peace Prizes to Stalin and Pol Pot. And George W. Bush, for that matter!

Of course war criminals like Henry Kissinger have won the Nobel Peace Prize before, so this newest award isn't really that unprecedented. But for me, that doesn't make the irony any easier to swallow.