We are not there yet

Just another quote that is very relevant for today, from Olara Otunnu, the U.N. special representative on children and armed conflict, in 2004.

…the view is still that the suffering and victimization of children in situations of conflict is tragic, it is sad, it is unfortunate, but terrible things happen in war. We've got to shift from that level of awareness to one of outright repudiation in which we'll say, 'War might be likely and bad and terrible, but we simply can't accept that these things are done to our children in situations of conflict. We are not yet there.