"Mira, Mira* --- Dead Children as Pawns..."

The Sandy Hook Carnage: the bloody aftermath of slain children in their colorful classrooms, hallways and school closets. Talk about undignified deaths and non-intact little bodies...

That fully grown, fully alive Dr. Gosnell-aborted baby boy 'fetus'.

A very long reel of Chicago schoolchildren shot down in their parks, yards, front rooms and streets... as innocent collateral damage of the drug trade underage gang initiation, which come about when the government looks the other way and fails to regulate the market. Imagine if someone had the presence of mind to whip out the video camera at that moment to film all the final death gurgles...

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Would video of any of these children's deaths -- surely they add up to well over 400 over the recent years -- have changed your views on banning guns, banning late-term abortion, or legalizing drugs?

If not, if you are secure enough in the value of your pragmatic thinking over your emotional heartstrings, then why would viewing porn videos of gassed, gasping children affect your opinion about the wisdom of intervening in Syria?

Why do we look away from those dead children and go on with our lives, not willing to sacrifice our own freedoms in accepting that some people, in some circumstances will die because evil exists and we will always have killers -- takers of defenseless human life -- amongst us?


It seems,
the more one is a supporter of Israel -- as opposed to a neutral stance: one little country, no more special than another, in a world of many -- the more one fears the use of chemical weapons in conventional warfare and supports US intervention.

Why?
Because one day it might be their own people, their children over there in risk, like Jewish-American children family vacationing, making their bar mitzvah at the segregated wall, enjoying a birthright trip, or just working abroad for the summer.

This is the same logic behind arguing that only one country should have the Bomb's deterrent power in the region.

The more one supports Israel, the more one will push for the US to 'bomb Iran -- bombbombbombIran', sing it with me? -- to preserve Israel's artificial balance of power in the region.

At this point, the best we can hope for is mutual deterrence keeping things quiet enough, or drawing all parties to the negotiating table. The threat of a few plaster scratches on Israeli children will never do that.

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* (Ven aqui.)