[geeks] more on dune

[gsm at mendelson.com]

On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 12:41:40PM -0400, hike wrote:
>Thank you for including these details.
>While older people are more mature and generally have a stabilizing
>influence in tense situations, to the military, they are more expendable.

Not in Israel. They were chosen because no resistance was promised and 
they would be respected more than a bunch of teenagers carry M-16s that 
are pssoibly older than they are.

>I have seen nothing of the paintball guns (non-lethal weapons) and wonder
>how a small group of "activists" could overpower, disarm, abuse and evacuate
>(with extreme prejudice) a group of Israeli soldiers.

I'm not surprised you have seen nothing of the paintball guns, it's been
ignored by the international press. Someday when you wake up and realize you
are living in a Arab country, run under sharia law, you will figure out that
allowing the press to be so pro-arab, and letting the mosques preach Jihad, 
wasn't a good idea. 

The English are starting to learn that lesson and might recover, while 
it's probably too late for the French.

The reason the mob could do what they did is as the soldiers were lowered 
one by one from a helicopter, they were immediately shot at and attacked by 
a lynch mob. 

If this were Iran or Afganistan, you would not be seeing videos of the
terrorist supporters attacking the soldiers, you would read a small
article on a middle page of the NYT that US soldiers went in to stop an
arms shipment and after being fired upon, sunk the ships with missles
from the air, with no terrorists surviving.

Geoff.

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