"This act by American soldiers is completely inhumane and condemnable in the strongest possible terms.
"This act by American soldiers is simply inhuman and condemnable in the strongest possible terms," he said.
He's not wrong to stand up and condemn the condemnable.
(The photographer Henry Peach Robinson concurred, writing, in 1896, "It is not, however, retouching in itself that is condemnable, but the bad retouching, at present almost universal, which turns the human face divine into a semblance of marble busts or, still worse, turnips or apple dumplings").
The point about the apparent extreme self-violence is that extremism and violence in and of themselves are condemnable.
But sometimes, instead, condemning what is genuinely condemnable is the most real thing one can do.
Other Pakistani leaders who have expressed their shock include Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan, who strongly condemned the attack and expressed grief over the murder of citizens, saying he was "stunned and grieved at most condemnable terror attack in Karachi on ordinary citizens of Pakistan belonging to a most peaceful community".
"And of those that are condemning the president's condemnable actions, I've not heard any prominent leaders, former presidents, members of the House or the Senate use his name while speaking in generalities".
On Saturday, India's prime minister said recent events here had exposed a "condemnable" strain of discrimination in Fiji against the ethnic Indians, whose ancestors were brought here as indentured servants in the sugar-cane fields when Fiji was a British colony.
After David Cameron called for more action from internet companies and airlines in general, the Turkish government said it was "condemnable" that UK authorities had let the girls leave in the first place.
