Re: Exploding pagers

On 4/10/2024 4:50 pm, Jan Panteltje wrote:

On a sunny day (Thu, 3 Oct 2024 10:33:51 -0400) it happened Ralph Mowery
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In article <ga1sfj11p2tpnnqpceqe4f6alv0sm7hkue@4ax.com>, JL@gct.com
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A few innocents were hurt or killed in attacking the Hezbolla
terrorists. That's regrettable but longterm probably many more Israeli
lives were saved. Government and warfare both require brutal
calculations.
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The pager thing was very target-specific, as opposed to, say, bunker
buster bombs.
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I nevr could get a handle on the innocents in a war.  Fine for the US to
firebomb or nuke Japan and kill thousands of people that were not in the
military.  But do not kill one or two that are not in the military in
those Arab countries.  The way I look at it if the countries over there
do not want the civilians killed get rid of the terrorists.
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The Arabs do not really want to fight, just agervate each other.  They
should get in an all out war and get it over with.  I am almost for
giving each of those countries a couple of short range nuclear missles
and tell them to eiter shoot or shut up.

 There is only one terrorist
It is the US making war away from their bed to sell weapons!

That's the sort of fatuous conspiracy theory that only Cursitor Doom would take seriously.

That nothanyahoo and shitlensky are sales agents.

Hamas massacred 1200 people at a festival. Netanyahu would have found that hard to organise that as a sales stunt. The Russian invasion of the Ukraine would have been even harder for Zelensky to organise.

even kids shooting each other with automatic guns, even at schools.

That's the National Rifle Association - essentially the US hand-gun manufacturing industry - but they essentially only sell inside the US.

I am not sure evolution has a place for a species like that.

Sadly, the gun violence in the US isn't at a level where it will deplete enough of the relevant part of the gene pool to make a difference.

Most of the world is uniting now against that US.

Not that anybody sane has noticed.

A trump win may help delay the armageddon but then he wants to attack Iran it seems.

Trump likes Putin and Kim Jong Un. Neither are positive influences. Trump's influence might keep them in power longer, but that wouldn't help peace or prosperity.

US is a dead joke anyways, millions without power now due to some storm and flooding
HOW LONG did it have to prepare for that??? Not gives no shit for its own people.
All that weapon industry man power could have build a nice infrastructure.

It did, but global warming knocked quite a lot of it down.

Now California earthquakes are increasing..

Not enough to worry about.

Not even a combined nuclear attack by the rest of the world needed to obliterate that
not so united S (S for shit ;-)?
But keep asking
Darwin applies.

Not here.

No empire lasted forever.

So far. The US isn't actually an empire, and while their political arrangements are crude and old-fashioned, they aren't as crude and old-fashioned as those in force in the historical empires that have failed, and they do have mechanisms that would let them modernise them. And more modern political arrangements still tolerate creeps like Geert Wilders. At least he didn't get to be prime minister.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney