I think the conditions in the world right now are favourable to a major war...

**Rat Faced** · 07-28-2006, 08:50 PM

It would have been the same reaction.

They wouldn't have condemned Israel, it would have been an accident.

Blue on Blue accidents happen in conflict.

The cynic inside me says:

They were told for 6 hours that the nearest Hizbollah were 5km away and could they please stop shelling/bombing the UN Observation Post.

The ex-soldier inside me says:

Intell takes time to arrive at the front.

The signallers are very busy causing delays in passing messages on.

The people that make the decisions are busy and sometimes cant be found immediately.

Theres also a line of command that's followed which makes all of these delays happen in a number of places before the message finally arrives at the place thats actually doing the shelling/bombing.

You have to realise... a General can't actually contact an Artillery Battery directly (as an example). He tells his Arty Liason, who has to contact the Division, who has to contact the Battalion, who has to contact the Regiment, who has to contact the Battery, who has to contact the Command Post which is directing the Guns/Launchers..

There are even more layers when your talking about something coming from an outside source to a Government to a Joint Command (Air and Land)..

Of course, there is the fact that the OP was clearly marked as UN..

But then the Field Hospital they bombed marked with both the Red Cross and the Red Crescent... and Israel wasn't condemned then either...

**j2k4** · 07-29-2006, 01:56 PM

Originally Posted by Filliz

Not sure if it has ben adressed here already but apparantly the US doesn't want to sanction Israel for the bombing on a UN camp because it was an "accident"

I wonder what the U.S reaction would've been if there were any US soldiers/civilians in that camp during the bombing.

Has this been discredited?

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060718/mideast_lebanon_UN_060716/20060718/

Maybe they merely suffered the injustice of placement "collateral" to the location of the "legitimate" Hezbollah forces?

It is been noted the U.N. posts are clearly indicated by color and flag; do you think this fact was lost on Hezbollah at all, at all.

**lynx** · 07-29-2006, 03:38 PM

From the same article:

On July 25, that base came under fire from Israeli artillery and was struck by a precision-guided aerial bomb.

We've been repeatedly shown that those things hit what they are aimed at.

**BawA** · 07-29-2006, 04:46 PM

well Israel has withdraw thier army from Maroon ol Ras and Bent El Jebel after heavy casualties, hope it stops here and everything goes to normal with Prisoner Exchange.

**j2k4** · 07-29-2006, 05:28 PM

Originally Posted by lynx

From the same article:

On July 25, that base came under fire from Israeli artillery and was struck by a precision-guided aerial bomb.

We've been repeatedly shown that those things hit what they are aimed at.

Exactly, to within an aiming tolerance of yards, which is sufficient to account for this misfortune.

That is why Hezbollah, et.al., employ this tactic of shared proximity, is it not?

**Busyman™** · 07-29-2006, 06:40 PM

Originally Posted by j2k4

Originally Posted by lynx

From the same article:
We've been repeatedly shown that those things hit what they are aimed at.

Exactly, to within an aiming tolerance of yards, which is sufficient to account for this misfortune.

That is why Hezbollah, et.al., employ this tactic of shared proximity, is it not?

...and of course shit is said about Hezbollah.

**j2k4** · 07-29-2006, 08:03 PM

Originally Posted by Busyman™

Originally Posted by j2k4

Exactly, to within an aiming tolerance of yards, which is sufficient to account for this misfortune.

That is why Hezbollah, et.al., employ this tactic of shared proximity, is it not?

...and of course shit is said about Hezbollah.

Not by me.

In my eyes, they are terrorists.

No shit.