Whether emanating from our media or the U.N. I am always a bit bemused about the hysteria over “barrel bombs”.
If Syria had a functioning arms industry that built nice sleek bomb casings like those made in the U.S., Russia, Sweden, or any other developed nation with a large arms industry, the dead would be just as dead, the maimed just as maimed, those bereft of the their loved ones just as grieved. But somehow, because they are in desperate straights and are obliged to use old oil drum as bomb casings, we’re supposed to be horrified of the results because they’re using “barrel bombs”.
This is the same level of moral reasoning that fancies “gun crime” is a morally meaningful category.
Exactly right.
Indiscriminate bombardments are OK unless there is a unique twist to them I guess.