No, I have never been there, but I do not need to go there to feel compassion for another human being, or outrage at the perpetrators. War, regardless of provenance, has a way of disproportionately affecting the innocent. What is happening to the women and children there cannot be considered the natural order of things. It is, in fact, a perversion and an atrocity.

The war will rage on whether you or I do anything at all. However, if I can do something to intervene, I am going to do it. If I wait for them to hash it out, there might not be anybody left. Every death diminishes us.

My post is to let people know what is going on, nothing more.