A video showing US soldiers in Iraq taunting thirsty children with a bottle of water has caused outrage. The footage shows a group of children desperately chasing a truck so they can get a drink. Today the US Department of Defense confirmed the video showed US soldiers and said the images were ‘unfortunate’. The faces of the two men in the vehicle are not revealed but they can be heard saying in American sounding accents: ‘You want some water? Keep running.’

- The London Metro, via here.

In the YouTube age, what will the new, grainy digital images of war do? If smart bomb hits and targeting runs have become sanitized footage for CNN, what about soldiers taunting thirsty Iraqi children, leaving them in the dust? Will we actually react?

Or will we become hollow to these images too?

“That kid’s running forever.”