Has Strategic Bombing backfired? Have we been seriously compromised?

Question

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Answer 1

What's all this 'we' business.
Are you Israelis or what?

Or are you just a part of a war mongering nation which goes around sticking its nose in everybody else's business.
Just 5 percent of the world's population consuming 25 percent of the world's energy. That's the greed that creates wars. You have been secerely compromised for several years, and unless you are able to get your act straightened out very quickly, then I'm sure that true justice will prevail.

Answer 2

Don't think you know what strategic bombing is. Strategic bombing is the bombing of factories infrastructure a army needs to survive . In Lebanon you have pin point bombing on a guerrilla army. Unfortunately they used heavy bombs on apartment buildings when much smaller weapons were available to them. These weapons would've only hit the suspected terrorist apartment and limited collateral damage significantly. One can't use battle axes where scalpels are needed. The israeli's will have to do some real hard thinking on how to bomb a terrorist in an urban setting that will mean smart weapons and forward observers to verify that the target is home.

Answer 3

Any time we have a problem, we can unleash a stack of missiles and get it over with.

Remember what Gen Patton said...

"It's easier to apologize and be forgiven than to get permission."

Good ole George.

Answer 4

since when has strategic bombing won anything? drop 'em a nuke and we'll have victory!

Answer 5

we need to kill more civilians so there would be more pressure to end the war. collateral damage wins wars