{"id":16589,"date":"2016-08-19T02:10:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T02:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16589"},"modified":"2016-08-19T02:10:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T02:10:37","slug":"war-gets-a-new-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16589","title":{"rendered":"War gets a new face"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kid Wounded in Aleppo Siege | Video Captures Horror\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eSuRiJp5pm0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This little boy is likely to become the new face of humankind&#8217;s ability to inflict inhumane pain and suffering.<\/p>\n<p>He is a 5-year-old Syrian boy whose home was bombed in an air\u00a0strike in the city of Aleppo, where the youngster lives with his parents.<\/p>\n<p>A CNN anchor broke down and cried today when she reported on the youngster&#8217;s wounds and on the carnage that&#8217;s occurring within his country.<\/p>\n<p>The boy&#8217;s name is Omran Daqneesh.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know at this moment whether he is alive. Nor do I know the fate of his parents.<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian civil war has killed at least a quarter-million people. The Islamic State is seeking to toss out the government of Bashar al Assad. The Russian air force is supporting Assad. The United States opposes Assad&#8217;s government and is working to destroy ISIS.<\/p>\n<p>Who dropped the bomb that obliterated Omran&#8217;s house? We don&#8217;t know. It appears to have been a Russian air strike.<\/p>\n<p>Will the image on the video attached to this post do anything to end the violence? Probably not.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth looking at this video, time and again, just to understand the hideousness of war and the irreparable damage it inflicts on the world&#8217;s most defenseless victims.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This little boy is likely to become the new face of humankind&#8217;s ability to inflict inhumane pain and suffering. He is a 5-year-old Syrian boy whose home was bombed in an air\u00a0strike in the city of Aleppo, where the youngster lives with his parents. A CNN anchor broke down and cried today when she reported &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16589\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">War gets a new face<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6504,1043,2362,5664,4489],"class_list":["post-16589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-aleppo","tag-cnn","tag-islamic-state","tag-russian-air-force","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16590,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16589\/revisions\/16590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}