Braddock wrote:
Nice humane weaponry they're using these days. I suppose these darts have the ability to distinguish between civilians and terrorists?
Use of such weapons shows the Israeli's don't seem to care one iota about how much collateral damage they cause.
Humane weapons? Please, feel free to explain which weapons are considered friendly to the recipient; I'd really like to know.
By the way, I'm sure the Israeli tank crew didn't say "Hey, there's a cameraman - LET'S KILL HIM!" Obviously they "intentionally" shot the truck, because, and correct me if I'm wrong, they are
trained to hit what they shoot at, as well as to shoot at the enemy. That's how you win a war. You kill the enemy before he kills you.
U.S. Navy Seal Marcus Lutrell wrote:
Any government that thinks war is somehow fair and subject to rules like a baseball game probably should not get into one. Because nothing's fair in war, and occasionally the wrong people do get killed.
Sometimes critical decisions are made to accomplish this and often they do not please the world that tries to put rules into war*. It was an accidental shot. By that I mean, had the tank crew known
exactly what they were shooting at, they would not have. The tank crew did what they were trained to do, and, for all they knew, just saved their lives/tank from a shoulder-fired missile. It was clearly a quick shot, judging by the short length of the video that didn't seem to be edited (as far as I know, could be wrong). This situation may have been different had the truck been on a flat, open surface,
not half covered by a small berm and a line of trees (it's in the video). By the looks of it, they could have (and may have) been mistaken as hiding, trying to get a quick shot off and then book it. Common sense would have cured that.
Regardless of whether or not this was technically a "warzone" is irrelevant. There's
obviously some major shit going down if they're rolling in with tanks. To most, this would not normally be considered an ideal time to go point a big black shoulder mounted item at a foreign tank. Maybe they should have asked the upper Israeli command "Combat operations are over, right? We were hoping not to get blown to hell while filming". At least they could have informed the tank crews in the area.
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I suggest a read through this book.