Our Boys Could Do It Better

Another Médecins Sans Frontières hospital has been bombed, and apparently rather more unjustifiably than usual, since the weaponry was neither sold by Britain nor deployed by the United States. Indeed, it seems likely that the forces of the evil Bashar al-Assad, backed up by the beastly Russians, were the ones having the fun. Although the motive may have been dishonourable - encouraging terrorists to blow up more airliners for the convenience of the fiend Putin - the method was frankly uncivilised, involving a carefully timed second attack designed to kill off emergency personnel along with the terrorists and expendables. The weapons were barrel-bombs, whose inaccuracy makes their use a de facto war crime, according to some. So inaccurate were the detonations in this case that they killed only seven people; which stands in stark contrast to the thirty-odd bagged two months ago, presumably with pinpoint precision, by the Americans in Kunduz.