[jwalburg]

Israel needs to deploy a whole line of cardboard decoy tanks or something and run them out of ammunition.

[saganite]

They say that permission to fire Hezbollah's longer-range missiles, such as those could reach Tel Aviv, would likely require Iranian go-ahead.

I thought the Iranians might be keeping the decision to launch on Tel Aviv in their hands. Nasrallah would have ordered the strikes long ago if he had the authority. If there are missile strikes on Tel Aviv it will signal Iran's desire for a wider war in the region.

[doug from upland]

Tehran is asking for it. Damascus is asking for it.

[ExcursionGuy84]

Metis-M anti-tank missiles and European-made Milan missiles...

....methinks the MSM is gonna try to overhype these as the King Tiger & Panther tanks of the 21st century:
unstoppable, mass-butchering weapons that'll lose the war for the good guys.

[Flavius]

The 9K131 Metis-M (AT-13) is an improved version of the 9K115 Metis (AT-7 SAXHORN). This improved missile has two alternate warheads: a 4.6-kg tandem shaped-charge with a precursor charge for overcoming ERA with a penetration of 800-900 mm of RHA; and a 4.95 kg fuel-air explosive warhead for attacking bunkers and similar targets. This improved missile has a maximum range of 1500 meters.

[Nachum]

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.

[crowman]

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

[uncbob]

On Friday, Jane's Defense Weekly, a defense industry magazine, reported that Hezbollah asked Iran for "a constant supply of weapons" to support its operations against Israel. The report cited Western diplomatic sources as saying that Iranian authorities promised Hezbollah a steady supply of weapons "for the next stage of the confrontation." Top Israeli intelligence officials say they have seen Iranian Revolutionary Guard soldiers on the ground with Hezbollah troops. They say that permission to fire Hezbollah's longer-range missiles, such as those could reach Tel Aviv, would likely require Iranian go-ahead.

In that case Israel has to go after Iran

They have no other choice

Trying to stop the flow of weapons is not going to work

Crappolla going to really hit the fan in the next several days

[maine-iac7]

Time to use the bunker busters - and time for an investigation into just what the UN 'observers' were doing all those years Hezbolla was up=arming all around them when the were supposed to do the opposite.

Were not the UN 'observers' suppose to be 'observing' the Hezbolla comply with UN 1559? And when they not only weren't, but doing the opposite, why weren't the UN 'observers' notifying KofffeeeMan?

WE should have answers to this....(I just know the UN wasn't buddy-buddy with the people they were living among all those years. After all, we all know how honest and upright the UN is)

'scuse me, I gotta go throw up = I think I made myself sick

[John Lenin]

Rummy is right, Cold War machinery is no match for modern weapons. That goes for aircraft carriers too.

[uncbob]

THen since tanks are so vulnerable and since the Hezballhs don't have any it will be grunt against grunt squad sized battles

[Onelifetogive]

damaged three Israeli-made Merkava tanks

Me thinks there is quite a gap between having three tanks "damaged" and losing a war.

[Obie Wan]

Well it's war and casualties are going to be taken by both sides.The only difference is the MSM are waiting with baited breath for any good news to report.By good news I'm talking about how many Israelie military are killed or wounded.This makes the MSM very happy !!!

[Minus_The_Bear]

GLASS. F&@*!!. PARKING LOT

[VeniVidiVici]

In the last two days alone, these missiles have killed seven soldiers and damaged three Israeli-made Merkava tanks — mountains of steel that are vaunted as symbols of Israel's military might, the army said. Israeli media say most of the 44 soldiers killed in four weeks of fighting were hit by anti-tank missiles.

It's sad. You fight a PC war to minimize casualties and the Hezbos celebrate a few lucky shots.

PC wars get our own guys killed. It's time they are ended in favor of killing the bastards.

[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..

[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.

[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.

[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.