Fetterman on pager attack in Lebanon: 'If anything, I love it'

[FBaggins]

109. That much is abundantly clear

Pagers are not used by the general population - they're antiquated outside a very narrow range of uses as with hospitals that have their own internal paging network or remote oil rigs and mines.

Israel did not "pepper" them throughout the population. They infiltrated a supply chain that was specifically delivering devices to terrorist - and it is thought that they even knew which terrorists had each pager.

It is not possible to come any closer to "closely targeting only the known enemy" than that... those devices had no civilian purpose and no reason to believe that anyone other than the target would handle them... and every indication was that it was an overwhelming success. Moreover... note the tiny size of the explosives involved. They hit thousands of targets and killed hardly anyone. They were obviously aiming to disable, not kill.

It also had the (significant) collateral benefit of forcing other Iran-backed terrorist groups to drop their own communication options. For those who spend little time learning military strategy... C3 is too often misunderstood as a critical factor. Damaging that all across the region is a massive win.

Let's not forget the comparison that you're implicitly ignoring. 3-4 grams of explosives times ~3,000 devices is on the close order of one tenth of the explosive force of a single Hezbollah rocket like the ones they "pepper" constantly into the Israeli civilian population