"You do feel like things are on the edge of something going horribly wrong when you've got people piling up at the entrance and cars coming with corpses in the back and driving off with them before you've got a chance to test the corpse or isolate it," he says.
The fact that it all went so horribly wrong, a rare victory for the anti-realpolitik school, and amid so much suffering, has encouraged them to preach the non-interventionist gospel (western intervention, that is), with unhappy results for a lot of Syrians.
Countries such as Nigeria have suffered horribly from a terror based on religious extremism that is alien to their society.
Shane Watson was unable to hide Australia's glee at a rare selection gamble by England that backfired horribly on the first day of the fifth Ashes Test.
Are you so horribly spoilt that you don't even know your few slaves, or such a fat cat that you own more slaves than you can possibly remember?" The problem, for Seneca, is not that owning slaves is bad for the slaves, or that the rich man's wealth might be better spent feeding the hungry than buying another ivory-legged table.
His death is a personal tragedy for family and friends, but even for those who never met him nor sympathised with his politics, there is something horribly poignant about a talent wasted.
The relationship began dissolving horribly and culminated in Van Gogh slicing off part of his ear.
The maths are still not horribly unfavourable but Ireland's gut feeling must be of crushing disappointment.
An attempted reverse sweep goes horribly wrong and she's trapped lbw.
With no training as an astronaut, she manages to get a job as a "mission specialist" on a space station – and things soon go horribly wrong.
On the face of it, Kieran Gibbs's sending-off for a handball committed by his team-mate Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain after 16 minutes of Chelsea's 6-0 victory at Stamford Bridge looks like a perfect storm of horribly nuanced refereeing ineptitude.
