Exploding pagers injure hundreds in attack targeting Hezbollah members, Lebanese security source says

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205. So just out of curiosity, what did your decade of Air Force experience involve that meant you...

… never learned what is and is not a legitimate target in time of war? I’m sure I’m putting that badly — I’m not asking for national secrets or anything, but the Air Force is military, and loss of life is expected sooner or later. It’s part of the trade, so to speak — unpleasant, but a fact.

People who are terrorists (1) don’t care who the hell they kill or maim — see 10-7-2023, and also 9-11-2001. After 9-11 my Massachusetts sister’s children returned to school to discover that among their schoolmates there were two grandmas who had died when their airplanes hit the Twin Towers — and of course all the people in themTwin Towers were civilians. (2) Terrorists are a danger to all who associate with them, and it just fuels them for further terrorism. (3) They don’t wear uniforms and they hide in the civilian population, and they do this deliberately. (4) There is no conceivable way to target only terrorists.