Turning on the state broadcasting service this morning I heard the man Humphreys declare the situation in Syria is "the worst human tragedy of our time". What time is that, Humphreys - this week?
In my time there was World War 2, and millions dead. Suharto's coup in Indonesia, a million dead. The Iraq war goes on, though the slaughter is now perpetrated by locals instead of invaders. We know the Yanks and the Brits didn't keep count of the dead but others did, and the number was higher than in Syria. The children dying of hunger and disease in a disaster created by the oil-grabbers - who's counting? No 'human tragedy' there. NATO brings freedom and democracy by the same methods as the Assad regime's dealing of death and destruction. Funny that.