To all of you with the wonderful and brilliant solution of "putting boots on the ground", who will be so enlightened as to write up a simply marvelous set of "rules of engagement", to reduce civilian casualties, whilst engaging a group that seeks to maximize civilian casualties (on BOTH sides), for propoganda purposes, you should volunteer to go join those "boots on the ground". Why? Because you seem so willing to send a bunch of soldiers to DIE on a mission you write up with impossible standards that no soldier can live up to and expect to have a remote chance of surviving.
The FACT is that the minute a group of Israeli soldiers is pinned down and getting shot to pieces by Hezbollah terrorists hiding in a building full of civilians, you will curse those Israeli soldiers for returning fire and killing some of those civilians just EXACTLY like you curse Israeli pilots and artillery men now. The only difference will be the number of dead Israelis. Of course, maybe more dead Israelis to make the losses even will satisfy you. But I doubt it.
How hard is it to grasp that Hezbollah hides behind civilians and allows them to be killed, and in fact WANTS them to be killed, when the Israelis use aircraft, or when they use artillery? And how hard is it to grasp that they'll hide behind civilians and allow them to be killed, and be happy about them being killed, when Israeli infantry shows up?
There will only be TWO differences. The dead Lebanese civilians will have bullet holes in them mostly, rather than shrapnel and blast injuries, but they'll be just as DEAD. There'll just be more dead Israelis, which is what it appears some people seem to want.
