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Originally Posted by Loudmouth_Mormon
Dang, A-train - are you feeling ok? I've noticed a slew of these comments in your posts in the last few weeks. I seem to remember a time when you could engage in conversation without the use of glaringly obvious bizzarro strawmen. Now it's standard fare with you.
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I am just trying to communicate to you in your own tongue. The meat of your statement was that this conflict endures because Israel was not effective enough in killing the enemy ten years ago. Further you are saying that the reason for their ineffectiveness is the hiding of these men behind civilian targets which Israel does not want to harm. With all that in mind, how many lives will be lost in the decades to come? Perhaps Israel should simply wipe the problem off the map and be done with it.
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Originally Posted by Loudmouth_Mormon
One guy with a missile on his shoulder in an urban area has a ton of advantages against a far superior force. I'm guessing it seems improbable to you because you don't have a good grasp on how such things work. Just a suggestion, but if you could stomach a few Tom Clancy novels, it might open your eyes a bit to the realities of warfare. (Yes, he writes fiction. He also takes great pains to fill his fictional stories with the realities of organizations, capabilities, and equipment.)
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See, there for example "open your eyes" is a phrase that means you are just so much more informed than I. So tell me, what is this great advantage this man has? I have never even heard of the police knocking out a whole block to bring out a sniper (and we've had many snipers in America's past).
Clearly there is something more to the strategy than simply killing the bad guy. Israel is using bulldozers to take down houses days after the shooting. Are they expecting to find the shooter still hiding in the rubble?
They may indeed be completely justified and their efforts may indeed be saving lives in the long run, even though civilians are dying. This is really besides the point for me. What I want to get across to people is the necessity for the United States to remain out of the situation.
-a-train