I don't normally do the political rant and rave thing. I don't know if this is ranting or raving but this past week has set my soul back a little due to images I have seen. Being a human being sometimes means that you have to look your species in the mirror and boy what a reflection.

It is obvious that there is nothing good will and sincere intentions can do to help the Middle East. A wave of co-ordinate Islamic fundamentalism has the region in a vice like grip of blood and death and unfortunately all the American soldiers left on the planet are never going to stop it. One particular image of a child crying with arm stretched hands; obviously looking for someone who he knows, just after a bomb had killed a Lebanese diplomat will remain etched in my brain forever.

Life is cheap if you are a child born in or near the holy land at present. But so can that be said if you are a child born or already living in Darfur or many other parts of the world where children seem to have as much right to safety as an ant has traveling on your average western pavement.

Admit it, most of us do nothing to acknowledge what is going on because we feel helpless. The images from CNN and others have only served to de-sensitize us from what is a human problem and as I suggested before, we have to start learning to look ourselves as a species in the mirror.

Whatever we can do as individuals to heighten awareness, we should do it for our species to ensure our children of the future don't have to dodge the intense heat of the magnifying glass as they zig-zag across the pavement trying not to get scorched alive…..