Your Military Industrial Complex at Work

[Octafish]

8. That is one of the things that most bothers me, Mnemosyne.

I was going to post an image of a starving child, but the children in the photos are too heartbreaking to use to make a point.

Another thing that's important to remember is what happens when "money trumps peace" becomes a regular way of thinking:



Belgian soldiers, part of the UN peace keeping operation, use enhanced interrogation technique on a Somali child.

Details:

Belgian military authorities launched an investigation into the atrocities following publication of a front-page story by Belgium’s Het Laatste Nieuws. In early July, Privates Claude Baert and Kurt Coelus, the two paratroopers photographed dangling the Somali child over a flame, were acquitted by a military court, which ruled that the incident — described by Baert and Coelus as a punishment for stealing — was "a form of playing without violence," according to prosecutor Luc Walleyn. And what of discipline from the UN, whose "Code of Personal Conduct for Blue Helmets" requires that peacekeepers "respect and regard the human rights of all"? Gould reports that a UN spokesman dismissed the acquittal of Baert and Coelus by insisting that "the UN is not in the habit of embarrassing governments that contribute peacekeeping troops."

SOURCE: http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/UN/peace.html

The sadness about this all weighs so heavily on my heart, I feel like "looking forward" etc. The reason I don't -- and you don't, Mnemosyne -- is that there are still so many kids starving, so many kids being tortured, so many kids without hope, we must keep going.