🚨 THE US JUST BOMBED A WATER PLANT. READ THAT AGAIN: America just struck a freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Isla

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63. I like square circles.

One poster said the trajectories looked like interceptor missiles.

What would happen if you intercepted a large bomb as it flew over a desalination plant, so that lots of heavy burning debris hit the plant? Or even if interceptors went astray and struck the desal plant?

In that case I wouldn't blame the maker of the interceptors (the US), or the military firing the interceptors (Bahrain), but the military firing the missiles to be intercepted.

Sadly, this cannot be. It would blame the victim, and at no point is a victim ever in the slightest responsible for his/her victimization.

Note that millennia ago, in a language abroad program, some poor German came to class saying he'd been robbed. We asked--teacher had no objection, since the English, French, Bulgarian, and Italian speakers had scant German and the Germans' knowledge the above consisted of hand gestures, so musili jsme ji zeptali jenom cesky, jak mozna bylo, ze jeho, nemca, kriminalci cesti okradli!" And he had to answer that he'd been out drinking, made some Czech friends; different bar, drank more; maybe a third bar, but definitely drank more. And he woke up on a bench with a police officer asking if he was okay but he lacked his identification as a German legally in the country, had no money, etc., etc. We laughed at the poor, undeserving victim. The cop had more mercy on him--mostly because he was nemec and assumed to be so stupid and arrogant as to be a waste of carbon. But took him back to the dorm and made sure he was treated well, since he was obviously unable to take care of himself. Fortunately, he wasn't my German BMV automotive engineer roommate. (NB: I probably screwed up the Czech, it's been 30 years.)