A heartbreaking story from Yemen

People tell me all the time that we should simply ignore the Middle East.  Let ’em kill each other if that’s what they want, I’m told.  It’s none of our business.

I understand such comments.

The region seems permanently violent and unstable.  Its many problems seem insoluble, and many there don’t even seem to want peace.  And we’re tired of wars.  We’re tired of spending billions, of dead and wounded Americans, for which, all too often, we’re kicked in the teeth.

I get it.

But stories like this one break my heart:

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/21/middleeast/yemen-fareed-shawky-dont-bury-me/index.html