Today's news brings me the thought that good old car bombs do the same trick if you don't give a shit about civilians and children and can even be labeled "huge"

Syria war: Huge bomb kills dozens of evacuees in Syria

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39609288

But they don't get the shock-and-awe effect of both monster high tech bombs (i.e. WMD's) or terrorism or chemical weapons. Neither do cluster bombs. We are inured to the damage cars cause to human life in general, we don't even see it, they do not give hardly anyone fear, even though without even a bomb they are two tons barreling down the street powered by harnessed "explosions". I think that the irrational kind of fear is what international regulation tries to focus on. Not offering an opinion whether that's good or bad, just pointing it out. There is a lot to be said, though, for pointing out the hypocrisy of caring about just the numbers of people killed by something, body counts. Because if body counts upset, there's a lot of things that do that kind of damage outside of war. Either you're going to be rational about it or not. And this gets to Trump's "little babies" argument = that was 100% emotion, no rationality.