![]() I understand that there may be justifications for going to war. The decision to send them would have to be for someone else to take. I could not countenance sending my own children into battle. Faces are points of convergence between people. The image had seeped into my limbic brain. I knew neither of these young men, but the photograph made the difference. It was still shocking, but the effect was at the cooler, cognitive end of the empathy spectrum. The dead boy had a different name he was a year older. When I learned that it was not the boy in the picture, I felt an irrational sense of relief. A week or so later, driving to work, I heard the news that a boy soldier had been killed in action. ![]() Paul Broks - takes a peek inside Tony Blair's brainĪ few days before the startof the Iraq war, the newspapers carried a picture of a young soldier, an 18-year-old boy. ![]()
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