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Originally Posted by Toy Santa
I find it very interesting and telling how quickly the general public have stopped hooting and crowing about these airstrikes now that videos and pictures of the effects on normal civilians in Syria have started going semi-viral, and the politicians have started admitting that collateral damage is inevitable in the "messy business" of war. Turns out people only have a stomach for warmongering when they can pretend it's just Johnny Isis getting blown to bits, or people in full Muslim dress. When it's normal kids in baseball caps and pigtails it's a little harder to start puffing your chest about I guess. Gives me SOME hope for people I suppose. A little.
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Exactly, the stark realisation that whoever got out by any means were lucky, as we fund razorwire, attack dogs and drone strikes it now dawns that all the innocents are now trapped and hope is all but gone.
Merry Christmas/Hanukkah/whatever.