This where things get tricky. As I said terrorists like dead civilians... lets them have someone to 'avenge' and someone to point out to their propaganda units as innocent bystanders. This gets the foreign support and troops.
Hezbollah's current leader went on T.V. and started talking smack and how they missed killing him in that strike, by the way the wall fell on a bunch of civilians. Basically he was at a dinner party and the Israelites took a shot at him and missed., he was in the backyard or something However ask yourself who would be attending a dinner party with known terrorist bigwig, while his side is picking a fight a few day previous? (The kidnapped Israelite troops thing.) I have a hard time believing that he'd sit around quietly and scarf down food all night, never speaking. Also, other Hezbollah people were there.
So we have a dinner party at a guys house with top Hezbollah people attending and they are surrounded by their wives and offspring. Anyone killed in this specifically targeted attack (which the leader of Hezbollah fully admits he was at) is one of those civilian casualties. Remember those leaflets in my previous post, this is the kind of reason they dropped them. There comes a point where bystanders become support personal. I think the statistic is 3 support personal for each active combat troop.
This is common for terrorist leaders in the middle east, they stay in large crowds of random people when in public... that way they have lots of meat shields as a deterrent to attacks. Anyone who dies as a meat shield is now a recruiting propaganda tool instead of a person.
This kind of tactic has led the Israelites to have an expected level of civilian casualties. They aren't trying to specifically kill off the meat shields, in fact they try to kill as few as possible, but at some point it becomes a case of quit fighting or except them as going to happen. So they drop a rocket or two into a car with terrorist leaders in them and then some random people get hit with shrapnel, some of which die. This also lets some targets survive the attack, which wouldn't have if the car were hit with larger ordinance or say napalm. This is the kind of tactics and choices the Israelites have to deal with. If they lose they dont have a country anymore and theyll get slaughtered. The same as any military conflict for them.
As I said before the Lebanese are bystanders in their own countries in this. One side is actively using tactics to get them killed offed as innocent bystanders. The other is stuck with keeping the casualties as low as they can within reason. At some point you have to chose between saving a bystander and losing multiple troops protecting them. If you chose to sacrifice your own troops there are going to be a lot more 'innocent bystanders' popping up on the battlefield... some of which explode when you ask if they are alright.
That and Hezbollah like other terrorist groups tend to claim more people died than did. So the body count gets inflated by dictate rather than actual deaths. As I said the only real solution for Lebanon is its own military to keep people off their land. This kind of battle will just keep occurring if they dont.
Hezbollah's current leader went on T.V. and started talking smack and how they missed killing him in that strike, by the way the wall fell on a bunch of civilians. Basically he was at a dinner party and the Israelites took a shot at him and missed., he was in the backyard or something However ask yourself who would be attending a dinner party with known terrorist bigwig, while his side is picking a fight a few day previous? (The kidnapped Israelite troops thing.) I have a hard time believing that he'd sit around quietly and scarf down food all night, never speaking. Also, other Hezbollah people were there.
So we have a dinner party at a guys house with top Hezbollah people attending and they are surrounded by their wives and offspring. Anyone killed in this specifically targeted attack (which the leader of Hezbollah fully admits he was at) is one of those civilian casualties. Remember those leaflets in my previous post, this is the kind of reason they dropped them. There comes a point where bystanders become support personal. I think the statistic is 3 support personal for each active combat troop.
This is common for terrorist leaders in the middle east, they stay in large crowds of random people when in public... that way they have lots of meat shields as a deterrent to attacks. Anyone who dies as a meat shield is now a recruiting propaganda tool instead of a person.
This kind of tactic has led the Israelites to have an expected level of civilian casualties. They aren't trying to specifically kill off the meat shields, in fact they try to kill as few as possible, but at some point it becomes a case of quit fighting or except them as going to happen. So they drop a rocket or two into a car with terrorist leaders in them and then some random people get hit with shrapnel, some of which die. This also lets some targets survive the attack, which wouldn't have if the car were hit with larger ordinance or say napalm. This is the kind of tactics and choices the Israelites have to deal with. If they lose they dont have a country anymore and theyll get slaughtered. The same as any military conflict for them.
As I said before the Lebanese are bystanders in their own countries in this. One side is actively using tactics to get them killed offed as innocent bystanders. The other is stuck with keeping the casualties as low as they can within reason. At some point you have to chose between saving a bystander and losing multiple troops protecting them. If you chose to sacrifice your own troops there are going to be a lot more 'innocent bystanders' popping up on the battlefield... some of which explode when you ask if they are alright.
That and Hezbollah like other terrorist groups tend to claim more people died than did. So the body count gets inflated by dictate rather than actual deaths. As I said the only real solution for Lebanon is its own military to keep people off their land. This kind of battle will just keep occurring if they dont.