Mark--why don't you take a tour through Jane's Defense and look at "Cluster bombs". You constantly go for "Moral Equivalence"
your quote: This discussion of the finer points of weaponry seems like another attempt to claim a moral high ground for the IDF. Why? From what you've said Katyushas, at their worst, are about as evil as the mines sown by the IDF, apparently illegally, which children are so fond of playing with.
Cluster bombs are bombs--not mine laying devices. It some cases they are shaped charges designed to penetrate armor. Not all of them detonate as designed. Several of our cruise missiles aimed at Osama landed almost pristine and were immediately sold to the Chinese or Russians to be reverse-engineered. Nothing ever works a hundred percent.
Shameless: Humint is "Human intelligence". Our dearly departed President Clinton all but destroyed all our humint funding and relied mostly on "technical means". (Netscape article today describes a 4 gigapixel camera with the resolution of showing every blade of grass in four football fields. If this is in the open I can imagine what resolution is in the KH series of satellites.) The KH series are Hubbles that point down.
IMO Hezbullah will talk peace if the IDF depleted their weaponry to the point they need time to resupply. This will continue until we hit Iran and Syria and change the symetry.
Seree: Your account of your relationship with the Katyushas is a novel and I hope you live to write it!
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