Our Children's Playground

I was astounded by a story I saw on CNN today. In the Middle East, a group of children were collecting shrapnel left by the recent bomb blastings. These children would go to nearby sites and collect the different shrapnel they found in the debris left by the blast.

I found it a little morbid that children are exposed to such disaster. Their father explained that maybe they did it as a way to cope, to remind themselves of what was going on the world. One of the children, a teenager, described hearing the whirring sounds as the bombs passed overhead. She pointed out a window to places where she saw the dust/smoke that were emitted by the landing of these bombs.

What is this argument really about? I have already forgotten why these two Middle Eastern countries started fighting. Don't most arguments end up a "who's right and who's wrong" tug of war? And no one really remembers what started the whole thing?