Syria - Injured boy video

[duke63]

What sort of a stupid world do we live in when we allow innocent kids to be treated in this way?

Politicians around the world should hang their heads in shame.

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[Kwacky]

War = money.

We allow kids to suffer in a whole variety of ways. Governments only care if there aren't enough kids left to do shit jobs for them.

[D41]

The lad looked stable enough, despite the mess....heads are typically 'bleeders'. The disorientation seemed/looked about right.....strange environment, situation awareness at a minimum, etc.

The med. apparently went to assist other kids with more pressing needs.

Vids of a bleeding adult don't have quite the same cachet as that of a child. It's not like the camera operator was concerned enough to stop filming and render assistance......and not much would be necessary. Talking to the child in a reassuring manner would have been more than enough given the circumstances.....even given a different language (and I'm not sure if they were different or not), the right tone would be more than enough to assuage the lad to some degree.

But that's not his job.

[kiwikrasher]

The lad looked stable enough, despite the mess....heads are typically 'bleeders'. The disorientation seemed/looked about right.....strange environment, situation awareness at a minimum, etc.

The med. apparently went to assist other kids with more pressing needs.

Vids of a bleeding adult don't have quite the same cachet as that of a child. It's not like the camera operator was concerned enough to stop filming and render assistance......and not much would be necessary. Talking to the child in a reassuring manner would have been more than enough given the circumstances.....even given a different language (and I'm not sure if they were different or not), the right tone would be more than enough to assuage the lad to some degree.

But that's not his job.

So it's OK to bomb the feck out of non-combatants incl. kids as long as you talk to them in a re-assuring manner when they miraculously escape death and are sitting there stunned, dazed and injured.

Some days I really think you purposely try to wind people on the forum up, other days I just think you have a screw loose.

[D41]

Where exactly did I write that it was OK to "bomb the feck out of non-combatants", please???

I can't see that anywhere at all in my post.

Can you??

[Perkles]

kids should never be put through such trauma let alone adults,sick world we live in

[kiwikrasher]

Where exactly did I write that it was OK to "bomb the feck out of non-combatants", please???

I can't see that anywhere at all in my post.

Can you??

No you didn't directly, but the whole tone of your post, to my interpretation at least, seems to downplay the situation. Maybe I'm just being sensitive because my kids are currently 3,500 kms away and after seeing that vid all I wanted to do was go and give them a hug and be thankfully we live in a peaceful country.

My bad I guess.

[D41]

Not to belabour it...but yes...total lack of emotion on my part, if that's what you mean??

You start getting emotional, you start making mistakes.....'clinical' is the term that comes to mind.... and the job is still the same no matter what.

Perils of dating nurses, I guess....

[duke63]

Still a disgrace that leaders of the world feel that is a acceptable side effect of what they are doing in Syria. That child is, at least on the face of it, one of the luckier ones as he has survived being attacked.

There was a graph i found earlier showing how many under 18s have been killed there. Strangely it appears to have been removed. I wonder why?

I hope all these politicians/terrorists/militants have lots of regrets on their own deathbed.

[Monty]

20,000 kids dead in the last 5 years. That's nearly one every two hours.

You can blame who you like, but ultimately there's a bit of responsibility in every one of us.

[D41]

What???

I don't know about you, but I'm not responsible for any of that whatsoever.

You take care of your own, and you do so selfishly (in a good way)...you trust someone else to do it, and this is the result....or something like it.

If you do charity work, you do it for yourself, and hope there's 'spillage' which benefits others...people start throwing altruistic ideals out there and nothing but an argument ensues, and nothing worthwhile gets done.

We'll just have to agree to differ on this....I do quite a bit of charity work...have done for about 25 years. Sometimes I get a little something for my effort, sometimes I don't. Some things are fun in a cool way....working on the Hollywood sign was one of them. Some things are way cooler, and in an emotional way...going down to Mexico and doing some stuff there was very rewarding at a much more base level.

You do it and take it for what it is...but you do it, because the end result will still be the same no matter what.


And don't get me wrong....I was just as surprised as anyone when it came down to the numbers......you're looking at about 15% of fiscal earnings actually making it to their designed goal....that's a standard figure for almost any business...you're just plowing the profit towards your intended cause. That % also yields a better tax bracket for the charity...again, sending more $$$ to the intended recipient as opposed to the govt.

[Rossgo]

Poor boy and many other kids throughout the world who are being blown up, abused, shot and brainwashed. No-one deserves to be treated like this. I do agree with what Kwacky has said war = money this will never end, we will never be far from a war zone.

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