Missiles Neutralizing Israeli Tanks

Yahoo News ^ | 8-4-2006 | Benjamin Harvey

[hosepipe]

Groovey... Damascus should lose fresh water supplies and electricity.. TONIGHT... Tomorrow morning main sewage drains should be blown.. Each day another city/town/population center in Syria should be included..

Soon Syria would start to smell like Port Au Prince in Haiti..
As disgusting an ordor as you can imagine..

[uncbob]

The Israelis and Americans should stop trying to win wars and start trying to conquer nations.

And as Ann Coulter says "Kill their leaders"

[Centurion2000]

"To the best of my understanding, they (Hezbollah) are as well-equipped as any standing unit in the Syrian or Iranian armies,"

Considering how well the IDF is crushing these insects, this is good information to know in case the war expands to bring those powers in.

[Cobra64]

No more Mr. Nice guy. Flatten them with carpet bombing from the sky. Every building, any structure, all roads. There should be nothing but empty, barren, terrain. Anything that moves should be shot at. No journalists should be allowed to photograph. All communications jammed. This is all out war. They all must die.

You have a better chance seeing a Democrat pledge allegiance to our Flag than realizing your proposal.

[skinkinthegrass]

The Israelis and Americans should stop trying to win wars and start trying to conquer nations....Agree, Them / Us.

[Americanwolf]

Iran and Syria are fighting a proxy war here.... If they are getting to the Merkavas that is bad news... those are some of the toughtest tanks in the world.

[Fatuncle]

"Neutralizing" Israeli Tanks?

To neutralize: to counteract the activity or effect of; make ineffective.

When the IAF killed everything the Syrians sent into the air, some 86 MIGs, IIRC, over the Becka valley, that neutralized the Syrian air force. Killing or damaging the occasional tank means you have a weapon that works if you live long enough to use it. But since at a minimum Israel has several hundred tanks in the fight, killing five to ten of them is not neutralizing that tank force.

[Cobra64]

At what point in the near future will we attack Iran?

Excellent question. With the setbacks in Iraq, it will be later than sooner.

And I am convinced that Iran was W's ultimate goal. W name Iran as part of the Axis of Evil, and we now have have Iran mostly surrounded.

[uncbob]

Normally one concentrates the artillery barrage with the tank-infantry assault in space and time.

Yeah I guess overhead antipersonal artillery rounds co-ordinated out front of an davancing tank force can tend to keep the missle launchers bottled up

[Cobra64]

I believe iran is already history.... it's being kept quiet till next of kin can be notified. if any next of kin is left......

Did I miss the memo?

[skinkinthegrass]

You have a better chance seeing a Democrat pledge allegiance to our Flag than realizing your proposal.....

Well?, Aren't they (the Liberals / MSM) Terrorists' most loyal followers? ...they're stupid enough.

[no-to-illegals]

could be.......

[skinkinthegrass]

Be curious to see how much he co-operates with Iran when the shove time comes.

That's so true....Its' very easy to spout "mean words" and / or "rattle the swords" when you think, your foe can't reach you.

[elhombrelibre]

Also, note that the headline says the tanks are neutralized. A few tanks lost is a bad thing. The soldiers killed is a bad thing. But the Merkava tank is not neutralized. This is just one more attempt to spin the war the way the MSM wants it presented. They'd like it to appear that it is futile for the IDF to defend their country and that the noble savage Hezbollah is invincible. Of course, that's not exactly correct. But not being correct doesn't trouble the MSM.

[1066AD]

Just what I was thinking, didn't the UN see anything in all the years they've been there ? Didn't their commanders require reports ?

It would be great if the IDF captured some Iranians & Syrians to show off.

[DariusBane]

Whether the "nut job" in Syria wants war or not, it is time to obliterate the status quo. The religion of Islam should be a quaint curiosity, dimly remembered, to be quietly discussed by irrelevant academics over warm lager.

[Farmer Dean]

Deploy the fuel/air munitions.Hard to launch an anti-tank weapon when you have no oxygen to breath.

[janetjanet998]

hezbollah somehow got american made TOW missiles....the IDF released video of weapons siezed in soutb leb..and the found some TOWS...

[DoughtyOne]

Break out the napalm. Bring the troops home and burn a swatch twenty miles wide clear across the bottom of Lebanon. Step in and occupy that zone and declare it Israeli territory. If the war doesn't stop take out another five miles and occupy that.

When all of Lebanon is Israeli territory, and that doesn't solve the problem, start moving east. Chop off Syria ten miles at a time until the Musies get get picture.

If they don't burn the whole friggen nation to the ground.

At some point, the Muslims are going to get knowledge, or those who value their land will pick up arms and butcher those who continually wage war against Israel. One way or the other, hopefully with the least amount of scorched earth, this has got to end.

It's time for Israel to go postal.

[xkaydet65]

I'm not entirely sure that the IDF is crushing Hezbollah. Even the IDF's numbers viv a vis Hez casualties are a small fraction of the available Hez forces.I don't think we've seen large scale infantry encounters and I don't think Hez is doing a Stalingrad. In '82 by this time the IDF had already pinned Arafat and the PLO up against the Med with Arafat screaming for help.

Hexbollah's hurt, but crushed, not yet, and if the Euros and Russia have their way not ever as the push for a cease fire grows.

One serious problem for the IDF is sustainability.Can a militia army of a small nation sustain a war over a long period of time. This is perhaps the first time since they shoved Hussein's Jordanians out of the West Bank that the IDF has faced a well trained and motivated opponent. Hussein's bedouins fought by the rules as soldiers, it will be far more difficult to root out Hezbollah who see a civilian as a shield.