# What were you THINKING?

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**Created:** [October 13, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532 "2023-10-13T19:36:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 30, 2023, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/529 "2023-12-30T21:38:36Z")

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> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#):
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> IDF could target them with 10% of the Hamas-kill-rate of their current methodology. Go much, much more targeted, forgoing most of their opportunities to kill Hamas, and only taking the opportunities where they could get them with a much lower risk of civilian casualties.

What about Israeli troops, who are currently fighting street to street, house to house, tunnel to tunnel? How many of them should the Israeli government allow to die in order to lower the risk to Palestinian civilians? This is not an air war. This is a ground war with air support.

I’ve been an infantry squad leader. If I was advancing through an enemy city, and someone opened fire on my men from a house, I would call an airstrike on that house, whether or not I knew whether there were civilians in it. Any squad leader in any army in any war would call an airstrike on that house; hell, _Captain America_ would call an airstrike on that house. That’s the sort of situation we’re dealing with here.

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