[Barry the Sprout]

You missed my point a bit Ronn, the people were killed by falling crates not from eating the food. It may sound daft but it is incredibly dangerous to just drop stuff on people in the first place. That is the problem with aid drops in general. It happens in most wars, the aggressors say they are being humanitarian by dropping food. Yet it does very little but kill people anyway. What is needed is ground aid - but you can't let people in due to the war.

The point I was trying to make about the pork is that the West has an incredibly bad reputation for not understanding other cultures very well. This reputation is, IMHO, deserved due to mistakes like this. That error could easily have been avoided but it is obvious that no one was even consulted about the aid. If they had of been it is almost certain that is the first thing they would have picked up on.

And finally, what I meant about the cluster bombs is that if they weren't being dropped on civilians then why do the civilians need warning? The war coalition has shot itself in the foot in more than one way due to this. It is the first outright admission that in bombing military targets they have to bomb civilians as well. Whilst the announcements prove that it is not being done without compassion, it is still being done.