Cause and Effect

It has been five years since the war started in 2003. There were many attacks from either the US side, the Iraqi side, or a third party on the Iraqi territory. Those attacks affected many civilians in Iraq. Two medias I want to contrast contains one about a recent attack in Iraq and another one about a war-affected child in Iraq. Those two media are linked in a certain way; a cause and effect.
The video was about a child name Farand Nashat. Ever since the war started his life has been affected greatly. He is now confined in his house with the exception of going to school. He describes his life as being "not normal". He stays home and surfs the internet, watch television, and do homework. He used to play football prior to 2003 but now he is unable to, he also has plans to ride bicycle but is restricted. Farand explains an hypothetical situation when a car comes by with a heavy machine gun and shoots civilians for no particular reason and he does not want to be a victim. He tells a story of his uncle being shot when he is just innocent.
The second article from CounterCurrent is about a recent airstrike on Baghdad and and Basra. The airstrike is intended for the Shiite but it claimed lives of innocents, eight civilians were killed.
As Farand has described, the place he live in can be hell. Incidents happen randomly and can not predict that it won't happen to a specific person. The war has a great impact on him, it deprived him of football and bicycle riding. Like in his hypothetical situation, instead the car the jet fighters in the second article, Farand's life could've been taken away and he could've been one of the eight civilians.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7300000/newsid_7305200/7305223.stm?bw=bb&mp=wm&asb=1&news=1&ms3=54&ms_javascript=true&bbcws=2

http://www.countercurrents.org/symonds310308.htm