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question everything (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 03:36 PM Original message |
Hamas Knows One Big Thing |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 03:38 PM Response to Original message |
1. Hamas are no Angels |
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Cary (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 03:42 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. What would you have Israel do? |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 03:43 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. They could have done a million things besides carpet bombing Gaza |
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Cary (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 03:53 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Sure, they could have done a million things. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 03:54 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. How about indiscriminately killing innocent people? |
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Cary (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 03:56 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. No. It isn't. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 03:57 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Wait a sec - are you actually saying innocent people weren't killed? |
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Cary (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 04:01 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. No. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 04:02 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Well anytime you bomb a building, rather than target specific individuals - you get innocents dying |
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Cary (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 04:06 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. I'm not any happier about that than you are. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 04:07 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. No ones happy except Hamas and the Likud |
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Cary (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 04:12 PM Response to Reply #22 |
26. I'm no fan of Likud. |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 06:11 PM Response to Reply #22 |
33. Actually Hamas is really pretty upset right now and its going to get worse for them |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 06:09 PM Response to Reply #18 |
32. War is not just about killing your enemy. Buildings are perfectly legitimate targets. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 06:21 PM Response to Reply #32 |
35. Look, just because Hamas was begging for the IDF to do something unethical |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 07:29 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. The strikes were about as surgical as you can get when using HE |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 07:31 PM Response to Reply #37 |
39. But I ask again - what about assassins? |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 08:26 PM Response to Reply #39 |
45. Not viable |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 11:32 AM Response to Reply #45 |
49. But collateral damage is not worth it |
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question everything (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 07:53 PM Response to Reply #18 |
40. When that building is a cover for a tunnel through which arms |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 08:13 PM Response to Reply #18 |
44. What if the target was the building |
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JoDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 04:05 PM Response to Reply #14 |
20. The majority were |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 04:08 PM Response to Reply #20 |
24. Are you saying they had an 83% accuracy rate? |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 05:57 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. Actually they are better than that |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 05:59 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Yes, but even the most "accurate" bombs don't specify friendly or foe |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 06:15 PM Response to Reply #28 |
34. There is nothing surgical about high explosives |
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Cary (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 04:09 PM Response to Reply #20 |
25. No one is "pure" in anything. |
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JoDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 10:09 AM Response to Reply #25 |
47. I don't have an answer either |
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azurnoir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 07:30 PM Response to Reply #20 |
38. So just who is Hamas " |
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bunnies (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 04:03 PM Response to Reply #13 |
19. Let me guess. All the dead children were in pre-Hamas school. |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 06:04 PM Response to Reply #10 |
31. Still Wrong...there are no examples of Israel going after civilians in Gaza air strikes |
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question everything (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 03:54 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. As Obama commented last July |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 03:55 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. So how is that logic different than "Iraqis? Saudis? Kill em all - theyre all muslims!" |
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bunnies (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 03:58 PM Response to Reply #9 |
15. Safe to say then that Obama supports Hamas firing back at Israel. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 04:01 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Good point |
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bunnies (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 04:07 PM Response to Reply #16 |
23. Agreed. |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 06:01 PM Response to Reply #6 |
30. They did not carpet bomb Gaza |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 06:22 PM Response to Reply #30 |
36. Yes, its a higher risk. So what? |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 08:29 PM Response to Reply #36 |
46. Because it is not revenge killings |
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RC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 08:02 PM Response to Reply #4 |
43. Hamas came into being because of what Israel was doing to Palestine. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 03:39 PM Response to Original message |
2. Thanks for posting rightwing cr@p to DU! |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 03:55 PM Response to Reply #2 |
12. No shit |
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question everything (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 08:02 PM Response to Reply #2 |
42. As opposed to an Iranian source that gets posted on DU Headpage |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 03:41 PM Response to Original message |
3. Another idiot that thinks war is a matter of "stomach" or "will" or something like that. nt |
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bunnies (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 03:43 PM Response to Original message |
5. Israel, 5th largest military in the world, loved by the US gov't, |
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Vegasaurus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 03:45 PM Original message |
This has never been about "the occupation" |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 06:00 PM Response to Original message |
29. Look, Hamas is a violent bloodthristy murderous hate group |
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Vegasaurus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-31-08 10:14 AM Response to Reply #29 |
48. What would you suggest Israel do? |
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Onlooker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 03:45 PM Response to Original message |
7. Good commentary, but doesn't really go far enough |
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ProgressiveMuslim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-30-08 07:54 PM Response to Original message |
41. Wow... Bret Stephens speaks Arabic? I'm impressed. |
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