War is not good for children or other living things, but we shouldn't let it spoil David Brooks' morning coffee

Sid Schanberg takes our second least favorite NYT columnist and many, many more of us not on the firing line to task for being afraid to look at images of a war so many flag-waving jackasses think is a cross between a video game and Sands of Iwo Jima.

And if you don't like to see pictures of four-year-olds who have been caught in an airstrike, think about why that airstrike is supposed to have taken place.

Yeah, freedom is on the march all right, you can tell by the sound of the jackboots.