Today’s news about US missile strikes against a suspected terrorist hideout in Somalia is short on details but rich in quality of imagination. Take this quote from the article, for example:

“When we came out we found our neighbor’s house completely obliterated as if no house existed here,” Fatuma Abdullahi told The Associated Press. “We are taking shelter under trees. Three planes were flying over our heads.”

This report comes, of course, on the heels of the usual claims of the obligatory child victims:

Residents and police in Dobley said at least eight people, including four children, were seriously injured when a home was destroyed. [Read more →]