Comment by noomer2
1 day ago
Does anyone really think the country that spent millions of dollars building explosive-laden pagers that blinded and maimed children, then spent tens of millions of dollars gloating about it in public, gives a solitary thought to the cost-benefit ratio?
They have rules that say it's okay to kill 100 civilians as long as a single "operative" is also killed.
This is a country whose leadership cares only about executing terror. Just like the USA.
Quit listening to the propaganda, listen to the actual claims.
We have one clear noncombatant child death--killed by the device aimed at her father (who was a valid target). We have a handful of people who are underage, but no details about them. Plenty about the one innocent, nothing about the rest. Are they truly that inept, or would looking into the rest reveal they weren't non-combatants?
The fact that they only managed to find one case to parade in front of the cameras says a lot. The beeper attack is probably the best special operations move pulled off in recent times.
Yet the pager attack did help wipe out most of the Hezbollah leadership and shortened the war overall.
Without it, Lebanon might be looking a lot more like Gaza right now.
This isn’t an argument, it’s just an outburst.
Even if your goal is terror, cost effectiveness means you can commit more terror.
The pager attack was incredibly cost effective. It would have cost orders of magnitude more to achieve the same thing by dropping bombs.
Cost isn’t a number subtracted from a bank account. Cost is, how much of this can you actually do?
That’s the whole reason this system exists. Their other systems work fine for shooting stuff down. But they cost too much. That is to say, they can’t shoot enough stuff down. This system can shoot more stuff down.