London was bombed several times.

We were bombed practically out of existence.

And it looks like a bombed out landscape, but it isn't.

Even when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, at least they shot back.

So the equivalent of the Federal Reserve Bank in Cambodia was bombed.

This is 1988 we actually bombed two Iranian oil platforms that year.

Death from the sky came. Afterward, more leaflets were dropped, informing villagers, Your village was bombed because you harbored Vietcong .Your village will be bombed again if you harbor the Vietcong in any way.

And then to give you a sense of just how inaccurate the Norden bombsight was, there was a famous case in 1944 where the Allies bombed a chemical plant in Leuna, Germany.

When they bombed Hiroshima, the explosion formed a mini supernova so every living animal, human or plant that received direct contact with the rays from that sun was instantly turned to ash.

The view walking in sweltering heat through that long cage is apocalyptic. Small groups of Palestinians smash up the remains of Gaza s bombed industrial infrastructure the concrete blocks that litter the sandy landscape.

Although the US bombed northeastern Cambodia intensely throughout the Vietnam War years, it had no stomach for a ground commitment there. Still within congressional restraints, the Nixon administration attempted to bolster Cambodia s military government.

She pointed out that the control men as she called them who carpet bombed towns and fields with toxic insecticides like DDT, were only trying to kill the little stuff, the insects, not the birds.

The Albanian separatists in Kosovo liberation army and the Serbian army and police engaged in armed conflicts in 1999, which led to the NATO troops bombed the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia consisting of Serbia and Montenegro. The Kosovo War broke out.

That may involve giving a short term role in a political transition to President Bashar al Assad (partly to save Russia s face). But a president who has barrel bombed his own citizens cannot conceivably be part of a longer term peaceful settlement.

Al Qaeda in Yemen has been targeted since the USS Cole was bombed while in the port of Aden in 2000. Missile strikes by US drones last December in Abein and Shabwa killed a number of Al Qaeda members, as well as civilians.

If trust were to collapse, and the Iranian regime decided to abrogate all of the relevant international agreements, it is highly likely that it would get its weapon, even if the country itself was bombed repeatedly. The strategic emphasis on breakout time is thus misplaced.

Indeed, the very existence of the Japanese nation was endangered, as most cities were bombed, Okinawa was invaded, and atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the end, Japan was disarmed, postwar trials were held, and most of the country s imperial conquests were reversed.

In both cases, efforts were made to burn off the oil from the ocean s surface. But, as the 1967 Torrey Canyon experience showed the stranded tanker was bombed with napalm oil on water doesn t burn well, and the emulsified oil called chocolate mousse hardly burned at all.

The uncertainty and disorder that have plagued Egypt for the last 18 months are fueling increasing lawlessness in Sinai. Last month, a pipeline carrying Egyptian natural gas to Israel and Jordan was bombed the 15th such attack since Mubarak s regime was toppled and remains out of commission.

Despite calls in some Israeli media for Gaza to be bombed back to the stone age, the Israeli government seems to accept that that would be wrong. Israel has taken some steps to minimize civilian casualties by warning Palestinians to evacuate areas that were about to be targeted.

Foreign governments began to change these polities after al Qaeda in Iraq bombed three hotels in Amman, Jordan, in November 2005, killing 60 people. Frightened governments in the region realized that the type of violence occurring almost daily in Iraq was starting to spill across the country s borders.

His greatest achievement was the peace deal in Northern Ireland. That historic triumph depended on bringing in Sinn Fein politicians leaders of the Irish Republican movement who in many cases could not be distinguished from the IRA, which bombed, shot, and maimed civilians in pursuit of its political goals.

Without listing all cities that have been victims of terrorism, as the representative of the United States has done, we wish to recall that 11 years ago, in 1994, Buenos Aires too was a victim of international terrorism, when the AMIA building was bombed, killing some 100 individuals.

Indeed, it would be hard for the current administration to say that it wouldn t do the same thing again, because it has done it many times before. On November 1, 2001, American planes bombed Ishaq Suleiman, a group of mud huts, because a Taliban truck had been parked in one of the streets.

Deviant individuals and groups exist in all human societies, and they are now empowered in ways that were once unthinkable. Think, for example of Timothy McVeigh, who bombed the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995, or the Aum Shinrykio cult that released poison gas in the Tokyo subway system the same year.

Sunni Islamic extremists now target minority groups as well as other Muslim sects. Some 800 liberal and Sufi Islamic scholars have died in targeted killings by extremist groups who receive financial assistance from like minded people in the Middle East, and some well known and much visited Sufi shrines have been bombed.

The employees of the state owned enterprises still receive paychecks, even though about a third of their workplaces have been destroyed. For example, the Sulaymaniyah Sugar Mill was bombed during the Iran Iraq war in the 1980 s, but its employees have been paid ever since, though only rats and pigeons now report for work there.

On 1 June, two deminers were killed and five were injured when their vehicle was bombed on the outskirts of Grishk city, Helmand province on 29 May, another demining team was the subject of a bomb attack, fortunately without casualties and on 18 May three demining staff were killed in a roadside attack in Farah province.

Or maybe it's because when I was a teenager back in the '50s, my uncle Henry having denounced the Ku Klux Klan and been bombed for his trouble and had crosses burned in his yard, living under death threat took his wife and children to Massachusetts for safety and went back to South Carolina to face down the Klan alone.

And even when that is accepted, when the sheer number of people clamoring to get to Europe s shores makes it all but impossible to deny the barbarity driving them to flee, a third smokescreen goes up. Some, including Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, claim that the conflicts generating these refugees rage only in Arab countries that are being bombed by the West.