YOU MAY RECALL, unless you have the attention span of an average American, that rather recently an American Air Force aircraft, or perhaps several of them, bombed the hell out of a hospital in, - was it Afghanistan? - for no discernible reason, killing many doctors and nurses and patients affiliated with the international organization "Doctors Without Borders". Just another day in paradise, the land of the free, and the home of the bombs. Par for the proverbial American course. What's a little collateral damage among good friends? Happens all the time, especially in the American military. The director of Doctors without Borders, a certain Dr. Stokes, evidently has accused the United States of doing the deed deliberately, as in, deliberate murder. Here we go again. Here come the conspiracy theories. The problem with this theory is that the United States Air Force, despite all high tech claims to the contrary, couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with a sack full of cow shit, let alone a hospital in the middle of a city, if it was trying to. Accusing the U.S. of hitting an intended target with a bomb is like accusing it of concealing extraterrestrials; way behind the level of competence, way beyond the pay grade. Of the tens of thousands of innocent civilians killed by American military might in the Middle East over the past generation or so, nearly all of them were accidents. America may be greedy, corrupt, and fat, but give credit where credit is due: we know how to kill, particularly by accident.