Is this the beginning...

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Mike 'Red Ocktober' Hense

fighting... and lobbing shells into a civilian population are two different things... surely you can't be that thick headed as to not realize this simple fact...

no, that wasn't well said at all... that was just plain stupidly said... sorry, if that sounds a lil rough... but surely you must be of the age where you can discern the difference between what you say, what you imagine, and what you mean to say...

--Mike

When I am under fire by missiles, and the missile launcher is in the garage of a civilian house, and the ammo is stored in the backroom of a newspaper or grocery store - then i lob grenades onto both buildings. Period.

If ammo transports are depending on certain bridges to reach their launchers, and if the personnell operating that launcher is treated in a hospital from where they return to combat and keep on shelling me with grenades and missiles, then I bomb the bridges, and bomb the hospital. Period.

If enemy operations are organised via cell phones and wire-telephone, and if they need electricity to keep their organisation running, then i bomb powerplants, and telephone masts. Period.

And if they use the local supplies of water and food, so that they can find rest and gain strength to keep on fighting against me - then I bomb the food and water supplies. Period.

and if their fighters are seeking the crowd of civilians to hide between them, I regrettfully nevertheless fire at them.

THAT IS WHAT WAR IS ABOUT. It's cruel, it's nasty, and it broke my heart when we came through places that have seen battles like this short time before in Kurdistan, and children crying in a hidden hole for they have lost their sister or parents. I do not like it a bit, and I feel down when remembering such things too long. THAT IS WAR.

BUT ISRAEL HAS NOT ASKED FOR GETTING ATTACKED AND TERRORIZED TIME AND AGAIN, and as long as you cannot show better realistic alternatives than Scandium, I defend Israel's right for self-defense. and this although I am no special friend of Israel myself.


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Has anyone noticed, btw, how remarkably silent Arab governments are? For the, too, Hezbollah is a huge, Iran-made problem. They know very well that Israerl does them a favour when weakening of destroying it. Hezbollah means Iranian influence, and that is something thta has become more and more a problem for Araba nations in the ME. Add to that the Palestinian attempt to take over jordan, and you now why Arabas do nothing serious about the Palestinians anymore. Corruption of Arab governments, espcially the Saudi government, of cause also is a reason.