If you have members of a militant religious extremist group kidnap two of your soldiers and kill a third, then proceed to rain rockets down on your civilian populations, how do you respond?
Evacuate the cities. Infiltrate the groups.
Get the US to loan over a few of those 747's with the chemical-argon antimissile laser in the nose. They've had laser-based antimissile systems that can fry an albatross 20 miles away, from a laser system you can cart around on the back of a truck. We can't be talking about over-the-horizon rockets, right?
This is such a technical challenge that the only solution is to bomb children and ambulances?
But for those critical of Israel, what would you do differently over the past 3 weeks?
How about this:
nothing.
Why not? Have the actions of Israel ameliorated the rocket problem? I don't see that it has, to any degree. In the meantime hundreds of innocents are dead. Maybe the thing to do would have been to do something,
anything except
exactly what Hizballah counted on them doing - a traditional Israeli disproportionate response.
I don't pretend to be a tactical genius. My name isn't Ender Wiggin. But I do know that the fundamental first rule of strategy is "don't do what your enemy is counting on you to do."