Great Game Marred by Rotten Apple, Again

You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs, but even Barack Obama and the NATO commander in Afghanistan seem to think that this verges on bad taste. For best results, civilian resources should be detrimented using jets, helicopter gunships, cruise missiles or quasi-genocidal sanctions regimes, in order that due respect may be accorded their status as human shields, enemy combatants or collateral damage. When a man just walks into a compound and makes a personal humanitarian intervention, it can lead to a potentially unsustainable degree of enhanced regrettability, manifested in this case by the fact that someone in the Press noticed what one of the female casualties was wearing.