Can't Do Anything Right

I first saw this headline last night on a CNN news ticker in Columbus Circle, but it did not completely register with me.

Iraq’s turbulent effort to reckon with the violence of its past took another macabre
turn on Monday when the execution of Saddam Hussein’s half brother ended with the hangman’s noose decapitating him after he dropped through the gallows trapdoor.

We are dealing with children who do not know how to do anything correctly.