[AndrewB]

Why can't we make out "finding" efforts easier by using drones to unleash huge amounts of sleeping gas over swatchs of Lebanese territory, to render every person unconscious for 6-20 hours

The Ruskies already tried something like that. Didn't work out so well.

[montag813]

The Ruskies already tried something like that. Didn't work out so well.

I am familiar with the Opera house gas. It was a very unfortunate choice of weapon. There are a half dozen better alternatives. And I would even prefer the use of that gas, instead of sending troops in harm's way to go house-to-house, as we did in Fallujah.