No more peculiar than the West's partnerships with dictators and butchers, Craig. It's the way of the world, like the US declaring it has the right to invade arbitrarily invade any country at any time it considers it against its national interests.

As for specific targets, US is investigating how MSF hospital became a specific target for a US gunship. In the chaotic involvement of dozens of countries in Syria, it's a wonder it's not worse. Canada with Kurds is targeted by NATO ally Turkey.

Look at whose side Iran is on with ISIS.