Tragic. Obscenities come in small versions, such as this, and larger versions. People don't seem to care much any more. And who better to set an example that the country which has not been meaningfully attacked since 1811? Whose freedoms have not been realistically threatened since the dastardly British did so? Who have lived in splendid isolation for hundreds of years?

One can count oneself blessed to live in a place which has the resources to build hospitals, schools, libraries, clinics, wells, roads, power projects all over the world. One modern bomber costs $2 billion, enough to build and equip 100 modern schools which could educate people in ways of empathy and humanity. And even more in third-world countries.

Or provide and equip 100 modern hospitals to which to take that poor girl.

All that for the cost of one bomber. Which drops bombs indiscriminately, creating hundreds upon hundreds of dead little girls.

We feel for that little girl while creating thousands more of her. How cold can we get? That is a great question, and we haven't plumbed the depths yet, I'm afraid. I'm very afraid. Of us, not 'them'.