Quote:
Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
There are several levels of care that militaries can take when attacking areas occupied by civilians.
1 Do not attack them at all. Try to achieve your aims through special ops.
2 Carry out your operations that you know will result in civilians casualties, but taking great care to minimize those casualties, even if this means substantially higher casualties among your personnel.
3 Carry out operations that you know will result in civilian casualties, with some care to reduce those casualties, but not at the expense of substantially higher casualties among your personnel.
4 Bomb the area with zero regard for civilian casualties.
5 Bomb the area with the aim of killing as many civilians as possible.
The IDF seems to be practicing #3. If it were 4 or 5 there would be vastly more civilians killed.
|
All indications out of the ground seem to show that it's more like 4, possibly 5 going on.