Perhaps we should establish a sliding scale of atrocities aganist non-combatants and award penalty points - 1 for humiliation at a checkpoint; 2 for building a wall through people's land and cutting of their means of livelihood, 3 for tearing down people's homes, 4 for using chemical weapons in built up areas... up to the massacre of thousands of refugees
This latest atrocity is aimed at civilians and is comparable to taking hostages and starving a people into submission - a war crime in anyone' (with a shread of decency) book.
Jim Carroll