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Originally Posted by dculkin
You forgot to add one of these -  - to show that you were kidding. The problem with these boards is that comments like that often appear to be sincere.
BTW, that Isreal's bulldozer policy really seems to be working well for them, doesn't it? (See, I was being sarcastic there.) |
Who said I was kidding? While I didn't say I endorsed the tactic, if the objective is to scare them, and you are prepared to fight without any moral constraints, then it is a valid tactic.
Israel didn't employ the strategy for very long at all because of world outcry. I think it was only a matter of weeks. So there isn't enough data to see if it had any sort of effect, and it certainly wasn't to the extent that I suggested as a "no holds barred" tactic. Israel decided that bad
PR was worse than the potential deterrent effect.