FINALLY!--The Iraqis are becoming an Americanized society

[underpants]

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Mosul schoolyard : A US Army soldier from the 1-5 Infantry watches an Iraqi girl playing with a plastic handgun in a schoolyard in the town of Mosul. (AFP/Cris Bouroncle)

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/050406/photos_us_rank_afp/050406011300_r464vlno_photo0&e=3&ncid=1756

[sabra]

1. this could get ugly...

[RPM]

2. whew - i thought you were going to tell me...

...that they had become a socially ambivalent, consumerist society that is complacent and docile.

they are far better than americans at this point...

[bloom]

7. that is what I was thinking....eom

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. My god.

What the hell is that?

[Lone_Star_Dem]

4. Children are little mimics.

They say what they hear and do what they see.

:cry:

[Cooley Hurd]

5. Holy Luca Brasi...

...why isn't that soldier stopping it? I know (at least I think) they're just playing, but CHRIST!!!!:grr:

[pnorman]

9. He could point his rifle at them, but that might make things worse.

Unless he actually pulls the trigger, those kids will merely escelate their games to include deadlier weapons.

(Yes, I'm just as sickened as everyone else here is).

pnorman

[Cooley Hurd]

10. Couldn't he walk over and scold them at least?

I certainly wasn't suggesting he shoot them or threaten them with his weapon...

[wideopen]

6. Sad.

What we are doing to their society right now is going to fuck up these kids and probably their kids for life.

[Snivi Yllom]

8. considering that Iraq is dripping with AK-47s i'm not surprised

You see the same thing in America, Iraq, the West bank, Israel, etc.

[Solly Mack]

11. From the look on her little face (which doesn't look like "play" to me)

I'm awfuly glad that is a toy gun she is holding.

(other reactions of mine)

"why isn't that dipshit stopping that 'play'?"

"Day gawds, what have we wrought?"

"Well, this wasn't what I was expecting to see" (I just *knew* this was about Iraq's new ownership society...but in a way, I guess it is at that.)

"DAMN!"

[Igel]

12. So, tell me, is this kid playing at being an American soldier

or an Iraqi 'insurgent'? I can't tell from the picture, I must be missing something obvious, though.

And the Palestinian kids RWers show wearing suicide belts and carrying rifles while their adoring mothers go all soft and mushy ... they're becoming Israelized?

[LibDemAlways]

13. The look on that guy's face does

not say "Oh my God, that's awful. Hey, kid, stop that." I'm reading, "Wow, look at that kid. She's a good learner."

Disgusting.