Speaking from the Labour frontbenches, shadow work and pensions minister, Helen Goodman described the government's policies as "unjust" and "wanton destruction of people's lives" that demonstrates "how little the government cares".

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There is no justification for such a wanton destruction.

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But what the L.A. Riots taught me, and taught most clear-headed Angelinos, is that there is no real or imagined injustice that justifies murder, assault, and mayhem, let alone the wanton destruction of property, homes, and businesses.

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Meanwhile, the brutal assassination of the U.S. ambassador and the wanton destruction of property in Benghazi, the cradle of the Libyan revolution, is indicative of a still-born transformation, one that had failed to create institutions capable of guaranteeing the rule of law in Libya.

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British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who in 1940 had said, "The fighters are our salvation but the bombers alone provide the means of victory, " was so shocked by the extent of the annihilation that he issued a memo criticizing the "acts of terror and wanton destruction, however impressive" and in his VE Day speech at the end of the war scarcely mentioned Bomber Command.

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But some have gone further west to the coastal city of Izmir - a place itself scarred by wanton killing and destruction in World War I.

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