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Are you sure you are a military man claywilk?
Remember the 1982 invasion? Remember Beirut siege?
The equivalent of three Hiroshima bombs were dumped on that city over the course of 82 days...One of the Israeli criminal generals even bragged that he seriously doubted that the city's rats could've survived such blow.
In spite of that, every ground forces advancement toward the city was met with stiff resistance that forced them to retreat and send another load of cluster, napalm and phosphoric bombs.
The Israeli Command centers used to send messages to the forces on the front line congratulating them for advancing few FEET forward.
These Hizeb Allah fighters are using the same tactics as the PLO ones.
Israel should be commanded for their military achievements...the three of them!
The first one is bombing shelters full of children, convoys of fleeing civilians and Red Cross ambulances and the complete obliteration of all of the southern villages.
The second one is their success in kidnapping 5 civilians from Baalbak hospital whereby three of them are senior citizens.
And the third is the capture of two Hizeb Allah fighters whereby one of them had a tattoo on his arm....Something that is highly prohibited in Islam.
The Stupid fucking morons would not be able to catch a monkey if it danced in front of them so they brought some of their soldiers to pose in front of the camera...
They started the campaign almost four weeks ago yet there are fighting in Bent Jbail and Ayita Al Sha'ab and other Far southern borders.
I generally resist the urge to argue over opinions about middle eastern conflicts, but, I need to correct one piece of serious misinformation you state above:
The Hiroshima bomb, "Little Boy," yielded approximately 15 Kilotons of TNT (15,000 X 2,000 lbs. = 30 million lbs.). Three times this amount would be 90 million lbs of TNT. The largest conventional weapon in the U.S. military arsenal is the "daisy cutter," which is a 15,000 lb. bomb, that can only be delivered from the back of a military transport plane, because it's too heavy to sit on any assault aircraft bomb rack.
What this means, is that for your assertion about the amount of munitions used by Israel during the 1982 Beirut war to be true, Israel would have had to drop the equivalent of 6,000 daisy cutters on Beirut.
Had such an attack happened, there would have been no Beirut.
The estimated casualties in the Beirut War were around 9,000. In contrast, approximately 70,000 Japanese died as a direct result of the initial Hiroshima blast wave and another 130,000 from radiation poisoning. Thus, if your assertion were correct, we could reasonably have expected at least 210,000 immediate and 600,000 total deaths to Lebanese alone, during the 1982 War with Israel.
That didn't happen, and your asserting this magnitude of destruction is dangerously incorrect, because it serves to discount the actual destructive capability of a nuclear detonation.
One Trident II missile, launched from an Ohio-class U.S. submarine, carries eight W88 MIRV warheads with a yield of 3,800 kilotons. That is the equivalent of over 250 Hiroshima bombs.
With respect to your beliefs about who is right or wrong in the current confrontations between Arab and Israeli, you are entitled to your opinion. But, when you spread misinformation about the sort of war that could be unleased by an sufficiently annoyed United States government, you are disserving yourself and your own people.
Because, if the average Israeli politician were to believe that a present day nuclear strike would be only 1/3rd of the destructive capacity of all the military ordinance used by Israel during the 1982 siege of Beirut, you might find that your misinformation will have facilitated the complete and total incineration of Lebanon.
Make no mistake about it -- nothing that you (or I, or anyone else) can possibly imagine, is anything like the death and destructive capacity of a modern nuclear weapon.
If the U.S. or Israel actually determines that it is necessary to attack the Arab world with nuclear weapons, there will be no more Arab world to respond to the attack.
No one should misunderstand this fact and what it would mean -- no one.
