mirgro said:
I don't expect the common man to come up with anything even close to what I can do with a computer. I would hope that people who are trained in military tactics cane come up with maneuvers that the common person, like you and I, cannot come up with. Otherwise it means they had pisspoor education. Your analogy would be better if it went something like this. I see that the computer has a faulty HDD, not unexpectedly, and I put on a full load to be written, then I act surprised when it fails. If you are trying to tell me that the IDF did not know to expect hostility, then they must either have been blind, dumb, or mentally retarded. You are trying to tell me that small mobs, isolated on a boat, are practically invulnerable to most common tactics and need to be shot to be calmed down. I just want you to think of just how horrible that sounds considering that he mobs and riots that involve soccer games are much bigger, better armed, and certainly not isolated in the sea, and the police actually killing those rioters happens almost never. They trample on each other, sure, but it's not the police that kills them. |
The most sound tactical move would have been to wait for the boats to enter Israeli waters and sink them, would you have accepted that outcome?
Israel faces two significant tactical problems, they’re dealing with an irrational opponent, and they’re held to a double-standard. The irrational opponent is challenging because what a rational opponent would consider the least desirable outcome (typically death) is entirely acceptable; and the outcomes a rational opponent would see as acceptable (compromising to deliver aid) is entirely unacceptable to an irrational opponent. The double standard is particularly interesting because Israel is the only country where a genocidal madman can criticize them as being the worst human rights offenders and you will have people in the western world agree; if Stalin and Hitler were alive today they could constantly bash Israel and no one would bring up that they killed tens of millions of people.
Israel faces two significant tactical problems, they’re dealing with an irrational opponent, and they’re held to a double-standard. The irrational opponent is challenging because what a rational opponent would consider the least desirable outcome (typically death) is entirely acceptable; and the outcomes a rational opponent would see as acceptable (compromising to deliver aid) is entirely unacceptable to an irrational opponent. The double standard is particularly difficult because even if they were some how successful at peacefully diverting the ship and accepting and distributing the aid they would still be criticized based on their actions; and a genocidal madman could criticize their actions for being inhuman without ever being questioned by those opposed to Israel.
