dijit 10 months ago

And materially it's different than assassinating them with a pistol because?

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  • lm28469 10 months ago

    You're arguing in such bad faith...

    With your analogy it would be like emptying the mag in the general direction of the car of the target, praying the target actually is in the car and praying there is no one else anywhere close to him.

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    • dijit 10 months ago

      Please help me understand then, because from what I can understand about the facts here:

      1) It was delivered into the pockets of Senior Leadership of Hezbollah, with an incentive for those pagers not to be distributed elsewhere.

      2) The explosive yield was very small, of an estimated 3000 pagers; 12 fatalities were recorded, making the death rate about 0.4%. One of which was a child, a relative of a Hezbollah leader. (this is an unjustifiable tragedy, but the only recorded civilian fatality).

      3) There has never been, in the history of all warfare, such a surgically precise attack with such a low casualty rate of the civilian population - considering the attack happened at a singular time where it was not possible to get all of the members away from the civilian population at all.

      I'm not sure I understand your reasoning, it's not indiscriminate if it's very targeted and very localised.

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      • lawlessone 10 months ago

        >3) There has never been, in the history of all warfare, such a surgically precise attack with such a low casualty rate of the civilian population

        How do you know this ?

        That sounds like a canned talking point. Up there with "Most moral army ever".

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