I can't criticize anything in this editorial - a first for the G&M!

It's like watching a smoking plane corkscrew from the sky. You know it's doomed, but you keep thinking that the pilot will somehow pull out of it. Then it  disappears behind the trees. There's a last glimmer of hope - maybe he'll pull out - and then the explosion. 

Sad, because he could have made a difference. The message was sound, but the messenger was not.