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In reply to the discussion: Poll: Do you believe Israel is committing genocide against the population of Gaza? [View all]Redleg
(5,860 posts)and other combat arms. I didn't say that the actual operators would go in alone without the security provided by other ground forces or tactical air power. Army Special Forces troops were used to good effect in the first Gulf War to take out the scud missiles.
I didn't argue that Israel is bombing Gaza back into the stone age. I said "a country might."
I don't know how many tons of bombs Israel has dropped and I don't know how many non-combatants or combatants they have killed or wounded. I don't know whether Israel has shown proper restraint or not. I suspect that they have been fairly careful in choosing their targets and that they want to minimize non-combat casualties but I don't know this. I don't know how good their intelligence is in Gaza, particularly because they didn't anticipate the Oct. 7 attack coming from Gaza. I do know that bombing is seen as the cheaper alternative to putting boots on the ground, but it has not proven effective in urban warfare scenarios when it is the primary way of attacking the enemy.