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I am completely against the US-Israeli war on Iran. That said, they are not carpet-bombing Iran. That is, they appear to be selecting individual targets rather

I am completely against the US-Israeli war on Iran. That said, they are not carpet-bombing Iran. That is, they appear to be selecting individual targets rather than engaging in carpet bombing entire areas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpet_bombing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpet_bombing The choice of targets is not legally legitimate (and the entire campaign is illegal AFAICT), and sometimes they used old/invalid intel, like what happened with that girls' school that's supposedly close to an IRGC base. Still, it is mostly individual buildings or installations rather than an attempt to flatten entire areas.

srean 8mo ago
They are using white phosphorus on populated areas in South Lebanon. That's as vile as one can get.
- saati 8mo ago
  Be that as it may, carpet bombing has a specific meaning, and it's not bombing one's not on board with.
  - srean 8mo ago
    In the context of Iran I agree with you. Not so sure about South Lebanon. From whatever media coverage I saw, some look not that different from carpet bombing.
- victorbjorklund 8mo ago
  Evidence for the claim?
  - srean 8mo ago
    https://share.google/aimode/CoVNoZcR3YOotyg5o https://share.google/aimode/CoVNoZcR3YOotyg5o
  - clort 8mo ago
    Human Rights Watch claim it, and have analysed photographs put on social media https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/03/09/lebanon-israel-unlawfully-using-white-phosphorus https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/03/09/lebanon-israel-unlawfull... (they have also previously documented that Israel has done this in the past)
- NoMoreNicksLeft 8mo ago
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  - srean 8mo ago
    I have handled this stuff (from remnants of unexploded munitions) and I know what it is. It is not spectacular but it is vile and terrifying. No amount of your "rape, oh that's just surprise sex" will diminish what it is.
  - rexpop 8mo ago
    Reasonable people know to take your flippant tone for the colorful warning of a rotten, toxic brain.
    - NoMoreNicksLeft 7mo ago
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      - srean 7mo ago
        > White phosphorous is a way to light up the night sky during warfare Lol No. Hilariously no. The thing to use to light up night sky is Magnesium (mostly, also aluminum. nowadays specialized resins). The primary use of WP is for smoke, but it is used illegally as an incendiary munition. For someone who talks so much about WP I did not expect this level of ignorance. Empty vessels sounds much, I suppose. Use of WP is banned * in warfare by international treaty, on the grounds of avoiding unnecessary cruelty and suffering. There are other banned weapons, for example, dumdum bullets. *There is a specific exception made for WP, which the Israeli army habitually and illegally abuses. No other army is known to be a repeat offender with regards to WP. It's use in an area with civilian population is strictly prohibited. Cliffs are not. Given the number of false equivalences you have been drawing you sound like a shill.
        NoMoreNicksLeft 7mo ago
        >but it is used illegally as an So prove it. Prosecute those people. Whining that bad people do illegal things is asinine. >*There is a specific exception made for WP, which the Israeli army habitually and illegally abuses. You mean it's not actually illegal. I'm honestly not a big fan of Israel, but until we can locate all six of their submarines that launch the Popeye Turbo nuclear cruise missiles and destroy them (at sea, hopefully) with megaton nuclear first strikes, Israel gets to do whatever they want. They'll Samson all of Europe, North America too. But that might be a little too harsh... you're still hoping to shame them into behaving. Or something.
- einpoklum 8mo ago
  Indeed, Israel and the US are quite vile. I have said so many times on placard which have then been ripped apart by the Israeli police. I only made a comment about the term "carpet bombing", as that is a specific term which means something else than "wide-scale bombing".
Saline9515 8mo ago
Not carpet bombing, yet. Israelis said the same at the start of the most recent Gaza war, which ended with large neighborhoods being destroyed.
roysting 8mo ago
I understand your compulsion to rationalize things, make excuses for your abusers, but I ask you to contemplate for a moment what you are defending. One, hopefully we have all seen the genocidal bombing of Gaza turning whole regions of large apartment blocks into an hell-scape of rubble with tens of thousands of people buried underneath them; people, not animals, not “just brown people”, not “terrorists”… people like you, like your wife or girlfriend, like your daughter or son or nephew…people who also want to live just like you even if far more humbly, without all the waste and decadence of the avg American. Should your loved ones be bombed and buried under a resort and luxury condo towers because a clan of billionaires do not like that you won’t leave your land? Two, at the very least, the most generous interpretation, the very first strike to start an illegal war of aggression that the Nuremberg trial clearly established as the “mother of all subsequent evil”, was not only on a girls school that killed dozens and dozens of young girls, but did so in a “double tap“ process where they observed that people arrived in ambulances and parents in cars to pick up very small humans, and then they hit them again with another missile. Let us be clear about what you are excusing… They intentionally splattered the guts and flesh of young girls and their parents rushing to save them all over a 300 foot diameter blast radius. We can lie to ourselves that may have been a “mistake“ but as established during the Nunberg trials, there is no defense in claiming that if you started the illegal and immoral war of aggression. Three, why are they hiding what is happening if it’s all above board? Why would they not permit unfettered access showing what is being targeted bombing and that the Iranians are lying when they say that thousands of civilian structures have been bombed including schools and hospitals? You trust Hegseth? Trump? Need I say more? And all that is without even addressing that these people have done nothing but lie and lie about lying about lying. And let’s also remember that as shocking as the files that gave been released, they have not even released even the slightly uncomfortable parts of the Epstein Files, let alone arrested any of the rapists and pedophiles that are now on yet another murder spree, starting that prosecuting everyone would cause the whole system to collapse! If want to believe people like that, people who do nothing but lie, rape, murder and cover up for it; then I guess there is nothing else to say and you will have to deal with that on your own as it eats you up from the inside. I for one am opposed to these types of people and actions and will speak out about it even if people don’t like it. And I refuse to make excuses for it for any reason, be it personal weakness or comfort.
mda 8mo ago
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- itsthecourier 8mo ago
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    - throwa356262 7mo ago
      From what I have heard this has turned back the clock 10-20 years. All US needed to do was to wait a bit...
  - locknitpicker 7mo ago
    > talking about "your line" is way too simplistic I think you're showing some despair in trying to justify wars. Bombing campaigns aren't a source of good, specially when the agressor is very vocal in how they have no plan or intention to safeguard the people's best interests. Then there's the fact that it's quite likely the war was started as a desperate attempt to silence and divert attention from the Epstein scandal.
- einpoklum 8mo ago
  Yes, they have shown that. I don't understand your question about my "line", you'll need to be more explicit.
  - locknitpicker 7mo ago
    > Yes, they have shown that. I don't understand your question about my "line", you'll need to be more explicit. I think OP's point was rather obvious: carpet bombing is not what defines an atrocity. Russian conducted ethnic cleansing campaigns in Ukraine without carpet bombing too.

srean 8mo ago

They are using white phosphorus on populated areas in South Lebanon. That's as vile as one can get.

saati 8mo ago
Be that as it may, carpet bombing has a specific meaning, and it's not bombing one's not on board with.
- srean 8mo ago
  In the context of Iran I agree with you. Not so sure about South Lebanon. From whatever media coverage I saw, some look not that different from carpet bombing.
victorbjorklund 8mo ago
Evidence for the claim?
- srean 8mo ago
  https://share.google/aimode/CoVNoZcR3YOotyg5o https://share.google/aimode/CoVNoZcR3YOotyg5o
- clort 8mo ago
  Human Rights Watch claim it, and have analysed photographs put on social media https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/03/09/lebanon-israel-unlawfully-using-white-phosphorus https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/03/09/lebanon-israel-unlawfull... (they have also previously documented that Israel has done this in the past)
NoMoreNicksLeft 8mo ago
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- srean 8mo ago
  I have handled this stuff (from remnants of unexploded munitions) and I know what it is. It is not spectacular but it is vile and terrifying. No amount of your "rape, oh that's just surprise sex" will diminish what it is.
- rexpop 8mo ago
  Reasonable people know to take your flippant tone for the colorful warning of a rotten, toxic brain.
  - NoMoreNicksLeft 7mo ago
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    - srean 7mo ago
      > White phosphorous is a way to light up the night sky during warfare Lol No. Hilariously no. The thing to use to light up night sky is Magnesium (mostly, also aluminum. nowadays specialized resins). The primary use of WP is for smoke, but it is used illegally as an incendiary munition. For someone who talks so much about WP I did not expect this level of ignorance. Empty vessels sounds much, I suppose. Use of WP is banned * in warfare by international treaty, on the grounds of avoiding unnecessary cruelty and suffering. There are other banned weapons, for example, dumdum bullets. *There is a specific exception made for WP, which the Israeli army habitually and illegally abuses. No other army is known to be a repeat offender with regards to WP. It's use in an area with civilian population is strictly prohibited. Cliffs are not. Given the number of false equivalences you have been drawing you sound like a shill.
      - NoMoreNicksLeft 7mo ago
        >but it is used illegally as an So prove it. Prosecute those people. Whining that bad people do illegal things is asinine. >*There is a specific exception made for WP, which the Israeli army habitually and illegally abuses. You mean it's not actually illegal. I'm honestly not a big fan of Israel, but until we can locate all six of their submarines that launch the Popeye Turbo nuclear cruise missiles and destroy them (at sea, hopefully) with megaton nuclear first strikes, Israel gets to do whatever they want. They'll Samson all of Europe, North America too. But that might be a little too harsh... you're still hoping to shame them into behaving. Or something.
einpoklum 8mo ago
Indeed, Israel and the US are quite vile. I have said so many times on placard which have then been ripped apart by the Israeli police. I only made a comment about the term "carpet bombing", as that is a specific term which means something else than "wide-scale bombing".

Saline9515 8mo ago

Not carpet bombing, yet. Israelis said the same at the start of the most recent Gaza war, which ended with large neighborhoods being destroyed.

roysting 8mo ago

I understand your compulsion to rationalize things, make excuses for your abusers, but I ask you to contemplate for a moment what you are defending. One, hopefully we have all seen the genocidal bombing of Gaza turning whole regions of large apartment blocks into an hell-scape of rubble with tens of thousands of people buried underneath them; people, not animals, not “just brown people”, not “terrorists”… people like you, like your wife or girlfriend, like your daughter or son or nephew…people who also want to live just like you even if far more humbly, without all the waste and decadence of the avg American. Should your loved ones be bombed and buried under a resort and luxury condo towers because a clan of billionaires do not like that you won’t leave your land? Two, at the very least, the most generous interpretation, the very first strike to start an illegal war of aggression that the Nuremberg trial clearly established as the “mother of all subsequent evil”, was not only on a girls school that killed dozens and dozens of young girls, but did so in a “double tap“ process where they observed that people arrived in ambulances and parents in cars to pick up very small humans, and then they hit them again with another missile. Let us be clear about what you are excusing… They intentionally splattered the guts and flesh of young girls and their parents rushing to save them all over a 300 foot diameter blast radius. We can lie to ourselves that may have been a “mistake“ but as established during the Nunberg trials, there is no defense in claiming that if you started the illegal and immoral war of aggression. Three, why are they hiding what is happening if it’s all above board? Why would they not permit unfettered access showing what is being targeted bombing and that the Iranians are lying when they say that thousands of civilian structures have been bombed including schools and hospitals? You trust Hegseth? Trump? Need I say more? And all that is without even addressing that these people have done nothing but lie and lie about lying about lying. And let’s also remember that as shocking as the files that gave been released, they have not even released even the slightly uncomfortable parts of the Epstein Files, let alone arrested any of the rapists and pedophiles that are now on yet another murder spree, starting that prosecuting everyone would cause the whole system to collapse! If want to believe people like that, people who do nothing but lie, rape, murder and cover up for it; then I guess there is nothing else to say and you will have to deal with that on your own as it eats you up from the inside. I for one am opposed to these types of people and actions and will speak out about it even if people don’t like it. And I refuse to make excuses for it for any reason, be it personal weakness or comfort.

mda 8mo ago

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itsthecourier 8mo ago
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- mda 8mo ago
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  - throwa356262 7mo ago
    From what I have heard this has turned back the clock 10-20 years. All US needed to do was to wait a bit...
- locknitpicker 7mo ago
  > talking about "your line" is way too simplistic I think you're showing some despair in trying to justify wars. Bombing campaigns aren't a source of good, specially when the agressor is very vocal in how they have no plan or intention to safeguard the people's best interests. Then there's the fact that it's quite likely the war was started as a desperate attempt to silence and divert attention from the Epstein scandal.
einpoklum 8mo ago
Yes, they have shown that. I don't understand your question about my "line", you'll need to be more explicit.
- locknitpicker 7mo ago
  > Yes, they have shown that. I don't understand your question about my "line", you'll need to be more explicit. I think OP's point was rather obvious: carpet bombing is not what defines an atrocity. Russian conducted ethnic cleansing campaigns in Ukraine without carpet bombing too.