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megousyesterday at 11:16 PM1 replyview on HN

Israelis can't carpet bomb. They don't have the tech.

Are you saying 10's of thousands of bombs US supplied to level the entire cities and countryside to the ground is preferable to IL having to get this elsewhere, because why exactly? What does precision have to do with it?

You can scroll around here to see what US did by providing all those mostly free bombs:

https://earth.google.com/web/@31.31022959,34.24130746,30.076...

(south is the only thing google is not misrepresenting on the aerial imagery)

This is preferable to carpet bombing, yeah? How?


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lovichyesterday at 11:46 PM

> Israelis can't carpet bomb. They don't have the tech.

What? I’m not even responding to the rest if this is how you open up.

Carpet bombing is so low tech I can’t imagine a country in the modern age that couldn’t create the technology even if they couldn’t afford actually deploying it. It’s a matter of logistics and having enough bombs.

It’s literally just dropping a fuck ton of dumb bombs on an area to “carpet” it, unless we’re talking past each other and you were referring to something else.

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