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>The Israelis blew up pagers belonging to members of a known terrorist organization. And the people who happened to be next to them when they went off?
by xnyan 2y ago
>The Israelis blew up pagers belonging to members of a known terrorist organization.
And the people who happened to be next to them when they went off?
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> the people who happened to be next to them when they went off? Collateral damage. Same as in any war. This discussion belies a naivete about how wars are fought. War--theconventional, legal, internationally-sanctioned kind--is horrible. The moment any side commits to war, it's committed to committing atrocities. You can't fight war without being shockingly cruel and inhumane. We have certain limits that have been internationally agreed. But let's be honest, nobody in the Middle East is following them. (The difficulty being compounded when one side is filled with quasi-insurgent/quasi-state participants.) And let's be more honest: nobody has treated them as totally binding ever.