Human agony - would you support wars if the man on the picture was you?

I wonder when we profess to be Christians or other God fearing religion and at the same time we find excuses to permit violence are we not thinking about "them" not to be like us? What would your child tell you if he/she had to go through concrete/war walls to go to school? Picture and commentary from AP.

Ali Jassim mourns as he takes part in the funeral procession for his brother Isam, in Shiite holly city of Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, April 22, 2007. Isam Jasim, age 13 was killed by unknown gunmen in the Shiite Muslim city of Kufa. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani).
Schoolchildren pass concrete walls in Adhamiya district in Baghdad April 22, 2007. The U.S. military is putting up concrete walls to protect five neighbourhoods in Baghdad in a new strategy some residents said on Sunday would isolate them from other communities and sharpen sectarian tensions. REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani (IRAQ)