Robert Fisk of the UK’s The Independent reports on civilian casualties from a Baghdad hospital.

If a war is justified, then the inevitable and inadvertent killing of children is also justified. And pointing to a hurt child by itself isn’t an argument against a war. I know that. Nevertheless, these children are facts just like the other sorts of facts we’re being shown 24/7: the government buildings on fire, the incoming missiles shot down, the ring of fire lit around the city.

We don’t have to linger on these particular little facts. They don’t have to change our minds. But they should at least remind us not to cheer when we see the Baghdad night lit up.

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