Anyone would be after seeing image after image of bodies charred and in pieces, the heartbroken faces of people fleeing their homes for safety, or anything better than being buried under rubble.

I was too young to remember the Bosnian genocide, but I remember very well the events of 9/11 and the ensuing pummelling of Afghanistan and Iraq.

“Shock and Awe”; that was how the aerial recordings of bombings were framed as replayed repeatedly on 24-hour news channels.

The many press conferences and international hearings laid the case for war. To safeguard the world against...