* The frequent reports of wedding parties and funerals routinely devastated by drones in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Bahrain, Yemen, Pakistan, and who knows where else?
* Chelsea Manning's release of the film "Collateral Murder," where U.S. "pilots" joke about "wasting" international journalists and the civilians who came to their aid.
* U.S. insistence on using cluster bombs whose known effect is to blow arms and heads off children attracted to explosives disguised as toys.
* Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's justification of the effects of U.S. sanctions on Iraq, which she admitted killed 500,000 Iraqi children. "Yes, Leslie," Ms. Albright said to interviewer Leslie Stahl, "we think it was worth it."
* U.S. supply of arms enabling Israel's "Operation Protective Edge" which wantonly slaughtered more than 2500 Palestinians in direct attacks on civilians and the infrastructure of Gaza.
* U.S. stated intent to adopt similar policy of "relaxed rules" around tolerance of civilian deaths in its latest attacks on Iraq and now Syria.
All of that would easily inspire Al-Jazeera editors to write:
"Comparisons are meaningless at this level of evil, as are attempts to explain the horror by delving into the psychology or rationale of the perpetrators. . . as one of our reporters wrote in a recent piece about the United States, there is no "why" in the heart of darkness."
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