The above picture is of a major Kobe Highway toppled over.

This link is to articles about theFurkushima earthquake and nuclear disaster 

What have we learned by these vivid metaphors.  What have we learned from the metaphors of shootings in our homeland and those at our Embassies.  Do the people overseas now think that this is the way we do things, and to get attention, as people do right here in the United States.  Why are the violent metaphors here happening, and are the violent metaphors flaming across the Middle East a reflection?