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Originally Posted by Lenny2
Yep this shit has been happening for 100 years.
Vietnam really changed the way people look at war, because it was the first war to ever be televised, and most people really had no idea what war actually looked like.
Assholes like Hezbollah capitalize on this by intentionally hiding their weapons and command posts in schools and hospitals and the like, and then whining about the innocent people who were killed when the bombs fell.
If they were so worried about the innocent people they wouldn't have hidden their weapons amongst them.
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It is not just capitalizing on the media, it has been the only viable strategy available to smaller groups fighting larger groups throughout history. For example, in WWII, the resistance against the nazi's in German-occupied areas used exactly the same tactic. The Germans, in turn, killed many civilians because of that, claiming that the "cowardly tactics" of the resistance were to blame.
This is not about Hezbollah being worried or concerned about the welfare of civilians - we know that they aren't. However, that does not take away all responsibility from those killing civilians because they are being used as human shields. Sure, Hezbollah is to blame for using human shields, but Israel is to blame for blasting right through those shields.
If a madman comes your way, holding up both a gun and a baby (perhaps his own?), and you choose to shoot him, thereby also killing the baby, part of the responsibility is yours - especially if, like Israel, you decide to go on the offensive and to take him out no matter what, entirely ignoring the existence of the baby. Sometimes, there may be no other choice, but in this case, there is - a cease-fire.