American Entropy: Why bomb all of Lebanon?

22 July 2006

Why bomb all of Lebanon?

Why did Israel bomb all of Lebanon? The problems they were facing was the launching of rockets from Southern Lebanon. So why not target that area exclusively? Juan Cole states:
I continue to maintain that if the Israelis had tried harder to target missile launching pads instead of dropping 80 percent of their bombs on non-Hezbollah areas or on infrastructure, they could have stopped these rocket attacks. Military action specifically to take out the missiles is legitimate, since they are being used in a war crime, which is the indiscriminate bombing of Haifa civilians.

It isn't a surprise to me that the air war failed, they targeted civilians and infrastructure instead of the root of the problem. Sound familiar?

Posted by Geoff

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