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Post #263,578 by bluke 8/3/06 10:02:38 AM Reply	No one including the US ... throws away troops for no reason. To send in ground troops without air attacks would be suicide. Hezbollah is a terrorist organization that has spent the last 6 years preparing for a confrontation with Israel. A large part of that preparation has been to bury much of their infrastructure in civilian areas and prepare ambushes and traps in civilian houses.
Post #263,593 by drewk 8/3/06 10:48:19 AM Reply	This will be my last reply on this Bill said: The reason you would fight that war is because it would PROVE that you were interested in minimizing civilian casualties in Lebanon. Your response was: No one including the US throws away troops for no reason. By your own words, minimizing civilian (Lebanese) casualties is "no reason". As I said before: Israel has so far demonstrated that they don't care about civilians, they care about Israelis. There are things civilized people don't do, even in self defense. === Purveyor of Doc Hope's [link\|http://DocHope.com\|fresh-baked dog biscuits and pet treats]. [link\|http://DocHope.com\|http://DocHope.com]
Post #263,606 by bluke 8/3/06 11:23:22 AM Reply	You are being pedantic No one throws troops into a fight where they know they will be ambushed and killed if they have a choice.
Post #263,608 by bluke 8/3/06 11:25:29 AM Reply	Modern war is always a balance between civilian casualties and the fighting, that is a fact of life. No country is obligated to throw troops into a trap to save civilians who are in fact helping the enemy.
Post #263,638 by Simon_Jester 8/3/06 1:55:41 PM Reply	So, why do a ground war at all? No country is obligated to throw troops into a trap to save civilians who are in fact helping the enemy. why not simply bomb (nuke?) the country flat?
Post #263,644 by bluke 8/3/06 2:24:20 PM Reply	Re: So, why do a ground war at all? Because no war has ever been won from the air. The air attacks weakened Hezbollah and made the conditions for a ground war against Hezbollah more favorable.
Post #263,645 by boxley 8/3/06 2:29:11 PM Reply	took 48 hrs to get to beirut in 82, whats wrong here? would have been better to blow by everything then pickup the trash on the way out. Would have been almost over by now. The tactics are looking pretty wishy washy from this viewpoint. thanx, bill Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 50 years. meep

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