You seem to think that Anderson "Thinks" on his own, But if you watch Anderson carefully, you will find that Anderson Plagiarizes everyone and does not have an original thought of his own.

Do not make the mistake of thinking the Israeli army is either stupid or incompetent. They know that targetting civilians will not give them any tactical benefit, and would be a complete strategic loss. They are also not so incompetent as to only be able to kill hundreds of civilians, if that was their true intent.

So far, Israel has used the most discretion in it's targetting of anybody.

Now, I don't value one life over another, but I don't think that body count is in any way a useful gauge of anything in this conflict.

So, you being American, I think, if someone bombs your family then yes, you should want to do everything in your power to kill them. If you're Israeli likewise. But if you're Arab or Muslim or, soon enough, Venezuelan or Chinese, you should have already bombed your family yourself, or at least the neighbors. Otherwise you're a dirty rotten (foreign) conservative, which is the next thing to a terrorist.

That would be "no," right? Not a great analogy, but hey, you picked it.

I don't give a damn about Hezbollah's moaning and crying over civilian dead. I care about the dead themselves.

Cernig quoted a counterinsurgency expert in another comment thread:

Air power works against you, not for you. It kills lots of people who weren't your enemy, recruiting their relatives, friends and fellow tribesmen to become your enemies. In this kind of war, bombers are as useful as 42 cm. siege mortars.

Israel knows this, and they don't care.

Another way of putting this, Mr. Tough Guy Publius Hamilton: if you were a Lebanese civilian and your family was wiped out by a bomb dropped on their (non-terrorist-used) house by Israel, what would you do? Because if that happened to me, I hope that I would do everything I could to kill Israeli soldiers. I suppose you would just blog the geopolitical rationalizations?

Hizb'Allah started this by crossing the border and KIDNAPPING 2 Israeli soldiers and MURDERING 8 others in an unprovoked attack on Israeli soil that even the Wahabbi Saudis are condemning. Hizb'Allah can stop the suffering by returning the 2 soldiers and stop shooting missiles at Israel. They don't care about the suffering, they want more of it to help their propaganda campaign. The more blood the better for those bloodsucking bastards who hide behind women and children and then moan and cry about the civilian casualties.

In any tally of the # of Israelis killed by terror attacks vs. the # of Palestinians and others killed by Israel, there's a good order of magnitude's difference, if not more.

I suppose you may think one Israeli life is worth 10 more more non-Israeli lives. I disagree.

The New York Times is reporting that the Bush Administration has approved a rush delivery of precision-guided bombs, or Bunker Busters, to Israel. As the Times notes, disclosure of the Administration's decision to expedite the shipment threatens to an...

As sad as that article may be, change the names and locations and it could describe the situation on the ground in almost any war, on either side.

The fact of the matter is that Israel is faced with the very real possibility of those being Israeli children from Israeli towns. What parent wouldn't destroy the whole world to protect their own? I know I would.

Hezbollah has put Israel in the position of having to choose between dead Lebanese children, and dead Israeli children, knowing full well what the result would be. Hezbollah wanted this, they wanted scenes of dead little Arab babies, not Israel. I may not agree with the strategy, but lets not blame Israel for the consequences of a war they didn't want.

Finally some good news from the NYT: "U.S. Speeds Up Bomb Delivery for the Israelis." Key paragraph:...

Add a bunch of bunker busters, and perhaps a few Fuel Air Bombs, but keep at least one precision-guided bomb for the New York Times...

In a daylong event that was not quite a funeral, not quite interment, but a brief goodbye for a few grieving families that could attend, hospital workers and volunteers worked furiously to assemble the coffins, remove bodies from the truck, spray them with formaldehyde and bury them in the mass grave a few blocks away. In all, they buried 82 people, including more than 24 children who died in the past week.

â??I didnâ??t sleep the whole night trying to make this happen,â?? said Ali Faramat, a local carpenter who spent the entire night cutting planks of wood, which young men from the neighborhood then turned into boxes.

Then the men spray painted names on the coffins, and for a few moments the bodies became people again, loved ones, memories.

No. 37 became Sally Wahbi, a 7-year-old who died in an attack on the Civil Defense Building in Tyre on Sunday. No. 35, Alia Alaedeen, who suffered serious head injuries as she was escaping the town of Sarifa on Wednesday and died Thursday. And No. 73 became Mariam Abdullah, who along with Zahra, Hadi and Myrna was among the 23 people killed in an Israeli attack on a pickup truck escaping the town of Marwaheen last Saturday.

â??God, you gave her to me â?? now take her to heaven,â?? Mariam Abdullahâ??s mother moaned. â??Take her to Paradise, and protect the victims of evil.â??

The scene continued for several hours as bodies in plastic bags, some of them soaked in blood, were photographed and placed into coffins, which were then nailed shut and lined up. The numbers on the wall corresponding to those on the coffins only went up to 74, but the men continued to place bodies into coffins.

â??We need a small coffin,â?? one of the men shouted. The crowd went silent, and soon a body the size of a doll came out, what one doctor called a posthumous birth from a pregnant mother in the trailer. The men broke into chants of â??God is great.â??

Halfway through, there was a bang as a plane dropped leaflets over the crowd warning them to move at once. â??Due to the terrorist acts against the state of Israel that came from your villages and your homes, the Israeli Army has been forced to respond immediately against these acts even within your villages, for your own security,â?? the note read in Arabic. â??You are ordered to leave your villages and head immediately north of the Litani River.â??

Yes, I think this is a wonderful strategy. More, please.

U.S. Speeds Up Bomb Delivery for the IsraelisBy James Joyner Israel is running out of bunker buster bombs, having expended several tons in Lebanon. The United States is pitching in with a new shipment.The Bush administration is rushing a delivery...