The trouble with war (aside from the death, destruction and its inherent senselessness) is that there are always innocent parties who suffer needlessly.
I realise that war, unlike long division when there is no remainder, can often be a messy affair. I also realise that during the course of a war mistakes are going to be made. I refer specifically the accidental shooting down of a Royal Air Force plane by a US Patriot missile.
While I can perhaps concede that errors like this are an unfortunate (though probably common) fact of waging war, I find it hard to understand how the US, with their plethora of high tech weapons and gadgetry, may have launched missiles into a completely neutral country.
And now Turkey.
Written on Monday, 24 March 2003