Oh, World...

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. ~David Friedman



  

"Dear Hezbollah,

SUCK IT!

XXOO,

Dani




There are so many things going so wrong right now that it's hard to know where to even begin reacting to them. But here's a start: Israeli girls in pigtails writing little hate notes on live shells bound for Lebanon, where the civilian death toll, according to the Jerusalem Post, just topped out at 229.

I stared at this picture today for about ten minutes while my brain refused to spool up the rpm's to form a complete thought. When it finally did, the thoughts came in interior head-screams:

What needs to be written on a lethal explosive that the bomb can't say by itself? Do these kids even get what they're doing? What the hell kind of parent lets their child DRAW ON LIVE AMMUNITION?

And then I started thinking about an even creepier aspect of the picture: preteen girls. There is nothing more rancorous and vindictive than a preteen girl, and allowing them to write the kinds of things they write on bathroom walls and in complicated little folded up notes ON BOMBS, to people they've never met, who WILL BE KILLED BY THEM, should be a violation of the Geneva Convention.

I'm a nauseous kaleidescope of disappointment, profound anxiety, and fear. But mostly I just want to grab that little girl by her soft, curly pigtails and shake her...