Re: Exploding pagers

On 9/18/2024 2:33 AM, Bill Sloman wrote:

On 18/09/2024 2:09 pm, 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.

 
Their insensitivity to collateral damage makes them look like decidedly
barbarian creeps too.
 

Rinse and repeat until the act is no longer politically expedient and
retreat in disgrace.

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Retreat into the sea?

 
That's not the only option. If Israel negotiated a good enough deal
with
  the non-barbarian majority in occupied Palestine, that majority
  might
reject Hamas. Killing off dozens of the non-barbarian majority for
every Hamas member eliminated isn't a route to that kind of solution.
 
 

The US is mostly "smart" enough to ensure its wars create massive
humanitarian, infrastructure, and sanitation crises in countries
thousands of miles away from Washington, but creating one 42 miles from
your nation's capital is ah...well it's an "interesting strategy" to say
the least.