If there is a good point about all of this, it is this:
These cards, if I understand correctly, contain not only pictures, but also biographic and technical data on the people and equiptment dipicted.
I'm not sure if it completely offsets the trivialisation of the situation, But providing young people with an easy to understand medium with wich to present this information seems like an ok idea to me. Now, if there were a Pokemon style card game, well, that's a different story lol.
-Sikboy