NEWS: Asshole Fuckface Roundup #78

The problem I have with WP is the particular type of damage it causes to the body once it come into contact with it, resulting in a painful chemical burn (it can actually enter the circulatory system through the burn area, later causing internal organ failure and death). The fact that it is being used in Gaza should be alarming because of the large concentration of civilians in the region (additionally, the Geneva convention specifically prohibits the use of an incendiary device against civilians).

As far as it's military application for smoke screening applications, it is actually less practical as the intense heat causes the smoke to "pillar" quickly upwards into the air instead of covering the ground with a longer lasting shroud of smoke. In Falluja, Iraq, the USMC used it to "shake and bake" against the insurgency, first by flushing them with the before dropping high-explosive rounds on them. It's multi-use designation seems to let the military get away with using it as an incendiary within a populated area by claiming it is for smoke-screening purposes only. I'm guessing the IDF is employing it for the same tactic.

It's easy enough to say that civilians shouldn't be out when there is fighting going on, but that's kind of tough when there is no place else to go and you need to get food or water. The humanitarian crisis there is compounded with every day the war goes on (and in my opinion, its the crisis that precipitated the conflict, not just the expiration of the cease-fire). I just hope there is a swift resolution to the conflict (and international pressures help to advance this conclusion)...

Image from Wikipedia, posted Jan 3, 2009 (Gaza, Israeli Artillery Attack)

Yeah, aggravated damage is a bitch.

i think you meant to say that it bypasses your SDC and goes straight to HP.

The Palladium Books reference gets my vote on this one.

Rifts and Palladium reference. FTW!

A proper Rifts ref should include MDC and at least one interdimensional beast or machine from the multiverse.

Remind me if i'm not correct FTR, but wasnt most of the attack on Lebanon against their infrastructure, and a big majority of it on their road system? So therefor there could have been cluster bombs dropped on areas where there wasnt that many civilians at risk?

Also i found this interesting

Seriously read the whole thing on Cluster Bombs in General and thier use.

it's theoretically possible, yes, but in reality, here's what happened. evidence indicates that most of the cluster bombs were dropped during the final three days of the conflict, as a sore-loser strike by Israel when it became clear that sustaining further operations would be futile.

hm bush put the guy in power....why does that sound familiar? when will we all learn to just stay out of their business.

Do please explain exactly how many civilians it's acceptable to put at risk of death or maiming. Include in your answer some discussion of tourism (with the nationalities of likely tourists), and its contribution to national economies.