Search results

As @Xeric will probably tell you. Indirect fire support while being bread and butter for any army is always tricky, even with the best fire discipline you REALLY DO NOT WANT TO DEPLOY IT when your soldiers are "danger close". In fact you can easily use the net to find out the distance from the...

Surreal fu&%ery! I am all on board for knocking off jihadis, and I get that collateral damage is pretty much the one constant of all warfare, but this is seriously surreal.

The lobbying is powerful, yes, but it does not detract from the fact that America is the senior partner. When it really matters, when push comes to shove, the US happily steps on Israeli aspirations (denial of F-22, Israel seriously and substantively lobbied for it). Continued military support...

Does it matter? The bombing won't stop and children will keep dying. Bibi was looking for a target and Hamas's status as a terrorist organisation made it the softer one despite the fact that it has a better chance it causing Israeli attrition than say the Palestinian authority. I have a feeling...

Is there no way of getting the children out? Why isn't Egypt at least allowing the children and women to flee into their territory, surely the Arabs can provide enough funds to setup appropriate camps, this is disregarding any bellyaching of how refugees drain resources etc.

Not to mention, Gaza is what, 5-10km across in girth and blockaded from all sides. Where are they going to run, sprout wings and fly off into the sunset to better pastures?o_O Surprisingly @Hyperion seems to be happy with the state of affairs, other than the bombing of the shcool(s).o_Oo_O

SERIOUSLY? So which legitimate target was situated on the beach they shelled? How did they identify it? What was the posited logic? When they spotted the children fleeing the first shell strike they just ASSUMED that they were combatants taking cover?

By attacking indiscriminately themselves, or by diluting the standards of classifying legitimate military targets?

The accuracy of weapons shouldn't even be the point of discussion, the shells which landed on the beach were plenty accurate, the criminality involved was in targeting the children on the beach. I may be completely blind of the context but that is NOT kosher.

Of course he is, even the Americans are not on board with the settlements, they know full well that it adds a monumental amount of anger to the Palestinian psyche, right or wrong, extremist or moderate, I am VERY unlikely to take the prospect of forced eviction and the destruction of my...

I thought we had established that in the Gaza thread. Its one thing to claim right of self defence and then go about shelling children on a beach just because you spotted some figures on the beach and decided that they must be combatants or legitimate military targets. Similarly, its all well...

Yes, I think eventually the goal is to clear out Gaza first, since Hamas gives them a pretext while the PA is relatively more connected to the international organisations, this (as counter intuitive as it sounds given that Hamas does have a limited capacity to put up armed resistance and fight)...

He's INCREDIBLY athletic. The only fellow I know in my extended circle who can keep up with me on my morning runs, I start at Saket and keep going till I hit Nehru Place (that's close to 7km), use the various impediments in the huge *** park behind Nehru Place as implements in something akin to...

Nothing, a very close friend of mine is a mallu, as cliche as that sounds, and I can't help but use it against him to insult him day in and day out.

Through language and food, and we aren't a particularly patriarchal lot, dad's a lefty and so is the rest of the extended family, more of old school liberalism, the first thing mom did after marriage was retain her maiden name as her surname, she like the ring of her original name along with the...

The Americans don't need to believe, that's irrelevant, as long as they see their interests being served its all cool for them. I mean 300+ million in new dollars, they don't seem to mind at all. Again, I don't buy his narrative, not most of it anyway. IF Israel is going to be perpetually in...

Indeed, I ain't no Tamilian and I have made a career out of bashing mallus.

Auntie. mixed breed indeed, stock of old Magadh and Bongi jholadharis. BAD combination, although the looks and brains do come in handy, unlike in your case lard belly! :lol:

Child, something is wrong with you! Not a bad movie? It gave me a tumor, and that's besides the one I already had, this one isn't sentient like the last one, thank goodness, but it was a close shave.

We bongs are over-hyped, most of us are simple folks like anywhere else in the world, I know, coming across one such as I can lead to generalizations of magnificence, but avoid doing so.