Life in Iraq

A nice snippet from Baghdad. It is quite strange, but the pictures contrasting guns and kids are quite dramatic, almost as pictures of kids with guns. It may be a simple psychological paradox of juxtaposing cuteness and deadliness, but then again, as long as it is effective, does it have to be true or do we have to know how it works? (A question that applies to religion as well.)
Could it be that the kids which are a perfect example of delayed gratification, are exact opposites of guns which offer a solution to most of the problems "here and now", just "point and shoot"? Cuddliness and chiseled cold? Playfulness and fatalness? Vitality and violence?
Whatever it may be, life in Iraq is probably full of ironic horrors or horrible ironies. Media reports can be either "right on the spot" or completely misleading, as any selective coverage inherently is. Every bullet in that machine gun on the picture could feed each kid for the whole day if not longer, or could just end it all right there and right then.