'Talaq inana!'

If this doesn't break your heart, you don't have one.

Nawal Na'eem Karim was surprised this week to hear her toddler tell her, "Talaq inana! Talaq inana!" — "Bullets here! Bullets here!"

He was warning her to step cautiously past the windows. Their house is in a kill zone. At 18 months, her baby already had learned counterinsurgency survival. He still wears a diaper.

The baby was warning his mommy about the bullets. The baby.

I'm sorry, but there is no good to be found in a situation where 18-month-old babies have had to learn how to avoid snipers. That isn't freedom. It's chaos.