THE BEAUTY OF IRAQ

Today, as a kind of introduction to writing about AmeriCares’ wonderful humanitarian mission to Baghdad, I wanted to share a picture of extraordinary beauty.

It’s not a beautiful photograph in any sort of technical sense, it is a picture of a beautiful girl taken in one of the hospitals which AmeriCares delivered aid to.

I once heard Ingmar Bergman, the great Swedish film director, talking about film. He talked about his belief that there is nothing more powerful than the human face. The face is capable of revealing infinite emotion—infinite love, happiness and sadness.

This girl’s face reveals why it is that we should bring as much help as we can to Iraq. We should be in the business now of helping these people who have suffered.