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New IDF tactic: The phone call>
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>1) Unlike their opponents, this shows at concern on the IDF's part for civilian casualties. Hey Dragan, how does this square with your hysterics over CBU's?
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>2) Anyone else ever read Heinlein's "Starship Troopers"? This reminds me of the "talking bomb" in one of the combat scenes. It has to have a profound effect on the person receiving the call.
Yesterday NYT had an article about Lebanese Christians telling their stories about the war. Many were angry at Hezbollah as the main instigator of the war. They were also angry at IDF.
But one paragraph caught my attention. One of the people interviewed said that he (or she, I just can't remember) saw a Hezbollah fighter shooting/killing one of the lebanese people for wanting to leave the village or town. Of course, you will have civilian casualties when they force people to stay there and keep shooting rockets right from the civilian houses.
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham
