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Ariel Sharon's Son Calls for Genocide in Gaza

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GunstarGreen11/19/2012 10:39:58 am PST

re: #650 Obdicut

Really? What use is it to him?

So, to be clear, you don’t think civilian deaths are inevitable in armed conflict?

The use it has for him is that his father might be alive if methods other than bombing the place were employed. If people considered the loss of civilian life a failure scenario instead of an “inevitability” that nobody is responsible for.

In the kind of armed conflict being engaged in over there? Yes they are inevitable. That is not my point.

My point is that there are better ways. Perhaps the money spent on bombs and jet fuel and the like could be better spent on coming up with better anti-rocket defensive technologies. Modern combat ships, for instance, have defensive turrets designed to shoot down incoming anti-ship missiles. Perhaps a version for use on land against incoming rockets could be developed?

Every time you go to take out “The Terrorists” and wind up killing somebody’s father/son/brother/uncle/cousin (or female equivalents), then write it off as “inevitable civilian casualties”, you defeat your own purpose. You give more people a reason to think that maybe “The Terrorists” are on to something.