There is no such thing as a terrorist specific pager. This indiscriminate attack does not have my support. This actually seems like a terrorist attack to me. I’m willing to listen to explanations but to me it doesn’t sound good.
Hezballah ordered these pagers for their terrorists to prevent spying from their cell phones. These weren’t being bought by kids wanting to be cool like they were back in the 80s. As for collateral damage and expanding war. Hezballah is launching thousands of rockets in to Israel and killing people. Lebanon is hosting them and should feel the pain of retaliation. War is hell and it only ends when enough hell has been dished out by a victor.
I respect your point of view. But I feel differently.
There IS such a thing as a “terrorist specific pager” when they are purchased en masse by a terrorist organization to be used as a method of communication for terrorist operations and distributed to the terrorists.
I try not to feel joy at this. But this is Hezbollah.
You do what these people did to our Marines in th bombing of the Beirut barracks, then I am fine with this and applaud who did it.
You want to hijack a plane, murder a US Navy sailor and throw his limp body to the tarmac for the benefit of the muslim world? Enjoy your exploding pager.
You want to chop the heads off of innocent people and film it? I can accept a pager blowing off your testicles.
You want to rape and mutilate both men and women before shooting them in the head in front of their children before shooting the children too, then I hope the Israelis figure out a few more clever ways to make you bleed and suffer.
I don’t take joy in it. But I accept it fully as your deserved due. God Bless the Israelis and aid them in the extermination of these beasts.
All of them. Down to the last man or woman if that is what it takes.
Look at the footage from the hospital. 24 injured fighting aged males. One possible female.
That’s a spectacularly low collateral damage rate in any conflict anywhere.
Go see yourself. It will convince you of the actual precision.
Israel operatives knew the pagers were ordered specifically for Hezbollah forces.
The shipment of pagers was intercepted during transit from Taiwan, and then quickly either “upgraded” or replaced, then sent back on their way quickly.
There are no good and fair tactics in war.
There is only winning and losing.
Remember how many civilians were killed when we dropped the atomic bombs on Japan before calling out the Israelis.
Ever heard of corporate bulk purchases?
That’s how hizbullah got their pagers.
Shell company purchased bulk lot, shell company previously identified, purchases tracked and verified, then “hey Simeon, check this purchase out” comes along.
This probably has quite a few years of work behind it, this wasn’t some store on the street selling these things.
“This indiscriminate attack does not have my support.”
Thanks for the input, Skippy. You can be quiet now.
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They knew who ordered the shipment so they knew who was going to receive the devices.
Do more analysis then reconsider your position.
It was not indiscriminate.
The pagers were for terrorists. It got them.
While it is easy to think ‘terrorist = bad’ and just label everyone that had one of these pagers a ‘terrorist’, I agree...it’s hard to imagine that there weren’t some very innocent people that got badly hurt. Just because they knew who it was being shipped to doesn’t mean the only people who receive a pager was some ‘Hezbollah fighter’.
If you’re just a regular civilian in those areas, you’d consider this a terrorist attack that deserves payback.
That said, this is all a different kind of war - but that doesn’t mean the ethical considerations shouldn’t be examined, especially on ‘our’ side.
What? You think pagers just get passed around to whoever wants one?
This was most definitely targeted towards terrorists--specifically. It was NOT indiscriminate.