Macabre Scores

None too soon, Prime Minister Siniora is using the phrase "war crimes." Yet the more Israel bombs, the more these war crimes morph into a statistic, and the more easily Miss Pianist Agonistes swooshes past them. "There is something fundamentally wrong with a war where there are more dead children than armed men," as Jan Egeland, the UN's top relief official dryly put it. How wrong, or how acceptable after all, marks a good measure of our humanity. (Image credit AP, for fair use.)