Child's eye: Afghanistan: Collateral damage

Grana, 12, is the sole survivor of a coalition bombing in southern Helmand province that took her arm and her leg, and killed nine members of her family

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[alanpgoodwin]

Next time you think we pay an arm and a leg for our gas, remember that Grana and thousands like her really have paid that arm and leg in the most literal and final sense. Get our paid murderers out of this country now please. I'd rather see mine and my family's breath on the air in our own home in winter than see another innocent person maimed or killed in the name of securing cheaper gas supplies...and the opium but that's another story.

[susanyana]

That poor girl.

[Mrevolution573]

@TwoBlumen Oh haha

[includao]

i am not religious at all, but i sometimes hope that there is a god, and that hell is real, just so that the vicious murdering psychopaths who do this kind of stuff will one day pay a price. "our" "leaders" certainly won't dish out any worldly punishments.

[TwoBlumen]

That's a nice head scarf she's got.

Must have cost an arm and a leg!

[JesusDiedROFL]

And they wonder why the Taliban keeps getting more members and just won't quit.

[deadrepublicantv]

Look at where they live. I'm supposed to believe that people like that are a threat to me?!?!? I'm sure they have no thoughts beyond their lives over there that were needlessly destroyed!  So sad!

[webriz]

I knew a colleague who lived near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border when he was young during the time of the Soviet invasion. He recalls that the number of Afghanis that he saw that were injured and maimed were such that he (in his young naivete) thought the term 'Afghan' meant 'crippled' - only later he learned that it was actually a people from a bordering country.

Congrats NATO - thank you for another generation of Afghans...I mean crippled children.

[lkrux]

War is the product of greed. If our world was respectful and greed-less, we would not have war. The reasons they give us are far from the truth. The reasons for bombs being built are only for destruction and death.

Money is the root of all evil,remember that.

every1 wants money and only the top have it, they want to keep it that way..so they kill people who oppose them. Governments are just forms of sophisticated gangs in which the people have to pay protection money in order to just live.

[SMEpic]

she is beautiful.

[anwarkhan00321]

ALLLLAHHHHHHHHHHHH

[khan8938]

Allah my peopleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee  yah allah this make us alot cryn and painful yeah allah protect these people and bring sucha good human right in afghanistan, yah allah help this lil girls and who eva is in this pain all around in islamic countrey, might allah keep them in jannahh in in ur beautiful world ammeeennn Allah