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right, so if you were trying to look for militants when you should be looking for civilians with pagers… you’d be wrong
by whimsicalism 2y ago
right, so if you were trying to look for militants when you should be looking for civilians with pagers… you’d be wrong
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> if you were trying to look for militants when you should be looking for civilians with pagers… you’d be wrong We're speaking within the fog of war. It's unclear, for example, what fraction of Hezbollah's ranks had a pager or walkie talkier. And what fraction of those were military. I'd still challenge that the collateral damage from such an attack constrained to Hezbollah members--even arbitrarily--is less than a conventional strike on suspected militants.
- whimsicalism 2y agoI am merely talking about criteria you would want to use in excluding people from planes. I doubt looking for stereotypical islamic militants would actually be that effective