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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerilla
Bombs, period, are indiscriminate.
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Originally Posted by Hippikos
Duh...that's what I'm trying to tell MaggieL all time...
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Again we fail to distinguish the distinguishable when the confusion benefits trying to establish moral equivalance where in fact there is none.
Even UG's gravity bomb can be fairly precicely targeted, when compared with an unguided or crudely guided rocket warhead Since we're talking WW II-era tech in the case of what Iran gives to Hezbollah, compare UG's 500-pounder delivered from, say, an altitude of 2,000 feet using a Norden bombsight with the
Vergeltungswaffe-I (no accident they're called
vengance weapons) or
-II. This *is* rocket science, you know...and to use anything less primitive than the most random weapons Iran had to provide Hezbollah with crews as well as the weapons and launchers themselves. But it's still a total crapshoot...just at a longer range.
An unguided rocket is vastly more indiscriminate than an aimed gravity bomb, which is itself more indiscriminate than, say, a sniper firing from concealment with a match-grade .30-06 and a 10x scope, who can drop one selected target while leaving five others standing around him. I think what UG meant to say is that once you're standing next to one, the effects of most UXO losing their "U" status are similar.
I'm refrring to the amount of discrimination
used in the attack. A suicide bomber can walk right into a selected pizza shop befoire detonating (assuming he doesn't panic and push the button at a security checkpoint). He *can* discriminate, he just doesn't give a shit; all Israelis are his targets, and any one will do. The same is true of Hezbollah.
A typical liberal will try to distract you by painting a picture of how powerful a
weapon is to prevent you from contemplating how horrible the
intent of an assailant is. That's as true in this case as it is in gun confiscation debates here in the US...a liberal will take away your legal handgun while leaving the criminals armed, just as Kofi Annan insists the Israelis withdraw and drop their blockade without demanding anything like compliance from Iran, Syria and their Hezbollah henchmen.