Choices For Syrian Kids

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What are your thoughts about this cartoon?

http://indy100.independent.co.uk/article/this-heartbreaking-cartoon-sums-up-the-choices-for-syrian-children--W1eaEz8y5wW

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I bet the sun readers have no idea what to do, dead kid on a beach or a bloody kid in an ambulance.

http://i.imgur.com/T5clR4A.png


Dave.

[Khandro]

mikey; I doubt very much that you will watch this, (ichkeria, just might ) because you never do, but there are some interesting points, particularly by John Laughland, which might make you think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm86WcUYF4Q

[Ellipsis]

1rovert> I think that had this child been just dug out of a bombed building, they would have at least given him something to drink, and wiped the dust from his face. Yet he is still covered with dust, makes me wonder.

Maybe, to save you wondering too much, it would help you to see a longer piece of video to give some context ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-37125400

Hope that helps.

[1rovert]

Thank you Ellipsis ; yes it does tell a lot more, the fault lies with the rescuers, they could ave wiped his face down.

BUT!! why not a picture of an adult, don't they matter ? or an elderly person, woman or man, they only show the children to get sympathy. Every human in that circumstance are important. I just get fed up with seeing kids all the time.
I feel for all those people, old or young.

[Ellipsis]

> the fault lies with the rescuers, they could ave wiped his face down.

No, the fault lies with the bombers.

The rescuers, if you carried on watching, rushed off to rescue other children and put those in the ambulance too.

> I feel for all those people, old or young.

That's great. There are plenty of other photos of adults and old people and they don't get the attention. Perhaps it's because a five year old, born after the war started, is indisputably a completely innocent victim of that war.