John Marchioro writes: > John G. cited the following: <snip> > > DIME is designed to be used in crowded > > urban areas since the weapons are highly lethal > > but have an extremely limited range of explosive > > force that can reduce collateral damage. <snip> > How thoughtful of the US to provide Israel with a neat new weapon like > this. > > And how nice of the Israels to show us its effectiveness by using the > Gazans as guinea pigs.
Actually, the real reason for the protests against the use of the DIME weapon is in the bit I quoted above. You see, it kills the bad guys carrying the RPGs and avoids "collateral damage" which of course means Palestinian civilians. Reducing Palestinian civilian deaths is a detriment to the Palestinian propaganda efforts to which large civilian death tolls is a great benefit. Anything that cuts down the death toll has direct and tangible negative consequences for the Palestinian authorities which depend almost entirely on foreign aid for their livelihood. It hits them in the pocketbook if only Hamas fighters are killed and not civilians. More accurate weapons means that the bad guys have to stand even closer to their human shields, and they may even be forced to fire their RPGs from between the legs of the women and children they use as shields. Damn those accurate Israeli weapons! It is good to know that the Palestinians are out there in force protesting, but someone needs to tell some of the less enlightened ones out there about the difference between the Palestinian and Mexican flags: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0c7_1231828156 Maybe they thought no one could tell the difference. Regards, Alan Siegrist Orinda, CA, USA --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Persons posting messages to not_honyaku assume all responsibility for their messages. The list owner does not review messages prior to posting, and accepts no responsibility for the content of messages posted. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
