The US made its first airdrop of humanitarian aid in Gaza on Saturday afternoon, and the New York Times reports a second airdrop of similar size occurred Tuesday, with 36,800 ready-to-eat meals delivered by parachute. Humanitarian aid veterans have criticized the drops as ineffective, costly, dangerous, and an option of last resort, and NPR digs at just why that’s so via an interview with Jeremy Konyndyk, who heads Refugees International and led USAID’s Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance under the Obama administration. His standout points: Truly a last resort: Konyndyk says they’re typic…