Re: Exploding pagers

On 9/18/2024 12:56 AM, John Robertson wrote:

On 2024-09-17 9:09 p.m., john larkin wrote:

On Tue, 17 Sep 2024 21:56:22 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
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On 9/17/2024 7:32 PM, john larkin wrote:
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They probably got a few militants among the thousands of civilians
injured, only credulous Americans would believe there was any kind of
highly rigorous methodology as to how they were distributed.

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I understand that Hezbollah bought the pagers for their own use for
secure communications, so Hezbollah people mostly got them.
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Collateral damage is to some extent inevitable in war, but the
Israelis are not terrorists. Hamas and Hezbollah are.

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Israel is fighting its war on terror about the same way the US lost our
own; bomb and shoot anything that moves and if someone gets hit rely on
the mainstream media to dutifully report that one more dangerous
terrorist has been eliminated.

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The difference is that they are fighting for their survival, against
barbarian creeps who want them all dead.
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Rinse and repeat until the act is no longer politically expedient and
retreat in disgrace.

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Retreat into the sea?
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 Isn't retreat into the sea what the Gazan's are facing now? Where the hell are they supposed to go? Isn't Gaza their homeland?
 I'm sorry, when a nation is attacked and loses just under 2,000 people, and then starts a conflict that kills 40,000 or more and shows no sign of ending I have to ask who are the terrorists. You may recall hearing of attacks by the invading party in WW2 where a town would be executed for the act of a band of fighters...All they both are doing is setting up the next generation of terrorists on both sides.
 What ever happened to Truth and Reconciliation? It worked in South Africa and Northern Ireland. Time to get it going in Israel and Gaza before the fools turn the conflagration nuclear.
 John

The US is the last country anyone takes seriously as mediator of any kind of "peace process."
Imagine if some country like North Korea ever injured 2,000 Americans with exploding pagers, would there still be a "peace process"?
Any country that did that, the US would go there and shoot them and bomb them and bomb them and shoot them and bomb them and bomb them and bomb them until the end of time. The US has been bombing Iraq at least monthly for the better part of 40 years, when in living memory has the US ever "made peace" with anyone!
Amusingly, Donald Trump likely did somewhat more for world peace in practice than any president in the 50 years prior. Not really intentionally mind you but mainly because he likes the easy wins and is so pretty selective about his wars, and even he's smart enough (so far) to not to get embroiled in land wars in Asia against people who didn't do shit to us directly.
But no doubt if something like 9/11 happened on his watch he'd want to glassify half the middle east immediately, and there were likely people in positions of power over there who believed he'd do it too. Like Reagan's tenure, having millions of people one senile washed-up TV personality away from incineration is what the right-wing media tends to refer to as "geopolitical stability."