Book Club post for Friday October 8th

The forever war is getting quite interesting, and is extremely violent in my mind. From the opening few chapters you have glimpses of an execution and an amputation of a pickpocket's hand. While these are troubling and graphic events to read about, you get the understanding that this is everyday life for citizens in the middle east. As horrible as that sounds, while some of us wake up, go to school or work and then come home to our families and go about our everyday lives and may see a car accident or a fire, citizens of Kabul do the same but will see something much more tragic. So my main reaction to these chapters is just how horrific and troubling these events are, and how they effect the people who see them. When people witness violence everyday it becomes normal to them, and they lose that human element of feelings.