A front-page photo of the May 4 Sun Journal, “Tragic moment,” brought a gut-wrenching response. It probably had the same effect on most everyone who saw it. A U.S. soldier, head bent, cradled a small Iraqi child in his arms who was wrapped in a blood-soaked cloth. The child later died from wounds from a car bomb.
What in God’s name are we doing in Iraq? What have we become? This innocent child epitomizes what is wrong and perverse with our invasion and continued presence in Iraq. There have been as many as 100,000 Iraqi deaths, many of them children.
Consider the soldier, who was intimately involved in the throes of death with this child. What has it done to him? What of the effects on our society with policies and economy based on perpetual war? They must be deep and damaging; our collective spirit is being chipped away.
It is up to the American people to say, “Enough.” A U.S. commander at the end of his Iraq tour of duty, who was asked about our continued presence with all the setbacks, said, “It depends on how much the American people will tolerate.” That is how much power we, the people, have. Isn’t it time to exercise that power?
Suzanne Dunham, Greenwood
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